Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8857
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sutherland , Kathryn.
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  • Title: Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) [A biographical sketch of the woman scholar who published critical editions of major Old English texts and produced the first Old English grammar. When her brother died, Elstob fell into obscurity and poverty but was rescued in later life by a network of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Volume 2: Literature and Philology.  Edited by Helen Damico with Donald Fennema and Karmen LenzGarland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1350.  Garland Publishing, 1998.  Pages 59 - 73.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Elstob, Elizabeth, Scholar (1683-1756) Old English Language Women Scholars
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 18
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Oxford, St. Anne's College
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815328907