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Turville-Petre, Joan

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Personal name headingTurville-Petre, Joan
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Variant(s)Petre, Joan Turville-
Turville-Petre, J. E
Blomfield, Joan
Birth date1911-05-10
Death date2006-03-09
Field of activityEnglish language--Old English, ca. 450-1100 Old Norse language
AffiliationSomerville College (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationUniversity and college faculty members
Found inReview of English studies, vol. XIV no. 56, Oct. 1938: (The style and structure of Beowulf / by Joan Blomfield)
Rauðúlfs Þáttr. English. The story of Raud and his sons, 1982 (a.e.) CIP t.p. (J. E. Turville-Petre)
Exodus (Anglo-Saxon poem). The Old English Exodus, 1981 (a.e.) t.p. (Joan Turville-Petre) jkt. (honorary res. fellow at Somerville college, Oxford)
A tree dream in Old Icelandic, 1988: title page (by Joan Turville-Petre)
Wikipedia, 17 November 2020 (Joan Elizabeth Turville-Petre (10 May 1911 - 9 March 2006) was a noted academic at Oxford University, England, in the field of Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic and Scandinavian language studies. Joan Turville-Petre (née Blomfield) was the daughter of Sam Blomfield of Colchester, Essex. In 1930 she began her studies at Somerville College, Oxford University and she maintained a lifelong connection with the college. She was a Tutor and Fellow from 1941 to 1946, a Lecturer in English from 1946 to 1965 and an Honorary College Research Fellow from 1965 until her death in 2006)
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