Bertha Phillpotts - Writings

Writings

Among Dame Bertha Phillpotts's published works are:

  • Kindred and Clan (1913) (Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-108-01050-4)
  • The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama (1920)
  • The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India (written in Icelandic in 1611 and translated and edited by Bertha S Phillpotts in 1923)
  • Wyrd and Providence in Anglo-Saxon Thought (1928, reprinted in Interpretations of Beowulf: a critical anthology. R.D. Fulk, ed. Indiana University Press, 1991)
  • Edda and Saga (1931)

Works published about Dame Bertha Phillpotts include:

  • Gunnell, Terry. 1999. "Dame Bertha Phillpotts and the Search for Scandinavian Drama". In Anglo-Scandinavian Cross-Currents 1850-1914, ed. Inga-Stina Ewbank (Norvik Press: Norwich). pp 84–105.
  • Poole, Russell. 2002. "Two Students of Boethius". In New Zealand Journal of French Studies.
  • Poole, Russell. 2005. "Kindred, College and Scholarship in the Lifework of Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877-1932)". In Women Medievalists and the Academy.

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