Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars, inaugurated in 1888 by the British Academy.

Description

The prize, set up in 1888, is said by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize specifically for female scholars. Two prizes can be awarded in any year, each "to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats". The prize is now "only" £500, but it provides a valuable recognition for non-fiction women writers. It has been awarded since 1916 by the British Academy.

The prize was established by Rose Mary Crawshay as the Byron, Shelley, Keats in Memoriam Prize Fund.

Winners Winners of the award have been:The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. British Academy via Internet Archive. Retrieved 24 September 2018. YearWinnerBookISBN1916Charlotte Carmichael StopesShakespeare's Environment1917 Leonie VillardJane Austen: Sa Vie et Son OeuvreM. StawellShelley's Triumph of Life (published in Vol. 5 of Essays and Studies by members of the English Association)1918Grace Dulais DaviesHistorical Fiction of the Eighteenth Century1919Mary Paton RamsayLes Doctrines Medievales Chez Donne1920Jessie L. WestonFrom Ritual to Romance1921Mary Ethel SeatonA Study of the Relations between England and the Scandinavian Countries in the Seventeenth Century Based upon the Evidence of Acquaintance in English writers with Scandinavian Literatures and Myths1922Edith Clara BathoJames Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd1923Joyce M. S. TompkinsA study of the Work of Mrs Radcliffe1924Madeleine L. CazamianLe Roman et les Idees en Angleterre- Influence de la Science, 1860–18901925No Award1926E. R. Dodds (Miss A. E. Powell)The Romantic Theory of Poetry: an Examination in the light of Croce's Aesthetic1927Alice Galimberti L'Aedo d'Italia: Algernon Charles Swinburne (R. Sandron, 1925)1928Enid WelsfordThe Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship between Poetry and the Revels (Cambridge, 1927)1929Hope Emily AllenThe Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for his Biography (Modern Language Association of America, 1927)1930Una Ellis-FermorFor her work on Christopher Marlowe and her edition of Marlowe's Tamburlaine1931Janet G. ScottLes Sonnets Elisabethains (Champion, Paris, 1929)1932Helen DarbishireThe Manuscript of Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Clarendon Press, 1931)1933Eleanore BoswellThe Restoration Court Stage, 1660–1702 (Harvard University Press, 1932)1934Giovanna FoàLord Byron, Poeta e Carbonaro (unpublished)1935Hildegard SchumannThe Romantic Elements in John Keats' Writings1936Caroline Spurgeon Shakespeare's Imagery1937Frances A. YatesJohn Florio (Cambridge University Press, 1934)1938Dorothy Hewlett (Mrs Kilgour)Adonais1939No Award1940Mary Lascelles (M. M. Lascelles)Jane Austen and Her Art (Clarendon Press, 1939)1941Julia PowerShelley in America in the Nineteenth Century (University of Nebraska)1942Sybil RosenfeldStrolling Players and Drama in the Provinces, 1660–1765 (Cambridge University Press)1943Kathleen Mary TillotsonEdition of the Poems of Michael Drayton1944Katherine BalderstonThraliana (Clarendon Press, 1942)1945Rae BlanchardThe Correspondence of Richard Steele (Oxford University Press, 1941)1946No Award1947Marjorie Hope NicolsonNewton Demands the Muse: Newton's "Opticks" and the Eighteenth Century Poets (Princeton University Press)1948No Award1949Rosemond TuveElizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery1950Helen DarbishireFor her Clark Lectures and collaboration in an edition Wordsworth's Poetical Works1951Rosemary FreemanFor her work on Emblem Books1952Mary Ethel SeatonAbraham Fraunce's Arcadian Rhetorike1953Helen GardnerDivine Poems of John Donne1954Alice WalkerTextual Problems of the First Folio1955Evelyn M. SimpsonThe Sermons of John Donne1956Helen EstabrookSandison Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges1957J. E. NortonGibbon's Letters1958Mary MoormanBiography of Wordsworth The Early Years1959Kathleen CoburnNotebooks of S.T. Coleridge, Vol. I., 1794–18041960Joyce HemlowBiography of Fanny Burney1961Vittoria SannaSir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici"1962Barbara HardyThe Novels of George Elliot1963Joan BennettSir Thomas Browne: His Life and Achievement1964Aileen WardJohn Keats: The Making of a Poet1965Madeline HouseThe Letters of Charles Dickens1966Margaret CrumPoems of Henry King1967Enid WelsfordSalisbury Plain, a Study in the Development of Wordsworth's Mind and Art1968Winifred GérinCharlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius1969Alethea HayterOpium and the Romantic Imagination1970Barbara RookeColeridge's "The Friend"1971No Award1972Valerie EliotFor her edition of the facsimile of the original drafts of The Waste Land1973Marilyn ButlerMaria Edgeworth: A literary BiographyChristina ColvinMaria Edgeworth: Letters from England 1813–18441974Jean RobertsonHer edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia1975Doris Langley MooreLord Byron – Accounts Rendered1976Hilary SpurlingIvy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–19191977Harriet HawkinsPoetic Freedom and Poetic Truth1978Lyndall GordonEliot's Early Years1979Elisabeth MurrayCaught in the Web of WordsJoan ReesShakespeare and the Story1980Helen GardnerThe composition of the Four Quartets1981Helen PetersHer edition of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems1982Mary LascellesThe Story-Teller Retrieves the Past: Historical Fiction and Fictitious History in the Art of Scott, Stevenson, Kipling and some othersAnnabelle TerhuneHer edition of Edward Fitzgerald's Complete Letters1983Claire LamontHer edition of Scott's Waverley1984Christine AlexanderThe Early Writings of Charlotte BrontëGillian BeerDarwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction1985Penelope FitzgeraldCharlotte Mew and her FriendsAnthea HumeEdmund Spenser: Protestant Poet1986Margaret DoodyThe Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry ReconsideredAnn SaddlemyerThe Collected Letters of John Millington Synge1987Rosemary CowlerThe Prose Works of Alexander PopeIona Opie (with the late Peter Opie) The Singing Game1988Jane MillgateScott's Last Edition: A Study in Publishing HistoryKathleen TillotsonThe Letters of Charles Dickens1989Valerie EliotThe Letters of T.S. Eliot 1888–1922Margaret SmithHer edition of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor1990Kathleen CoburnNotebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. 4th Vol.Norma Dalrymple-ChampneysComplete Poetical Works of George Crabbe, ed. 3 Vols1991Anne BartonThe Names of ComedyValerie RumboldWomen's Place in Pope's World1992Antonia ForsterBook Reviews in England, 1749–17741993Barbara RosenbaumIndex of Literary Manuscripts, Volume IV, part 2: Hardy to LambMargaret ReynoldsHer critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh1994Margaret CardwellHer volume in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations (CUP, 1993)Janet GezariCharlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct (Pennsylvania University Press, 1992)1995Caroline FranklinByron's Heroines (CUP, 1993)Jenny UglowElizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (Faber & Faber, 1993)1996Kate FlintThe Woman Reader 1837-1914 Ruth SmithHandel's Oratorios and Eighteenth Century Thought 1997Hermione LeeVirginia Woolf (biography) 1998Moyra HaslettByron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend Katie TrumpenerBardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire 1999Elizabet(h) WrightPsychoanalytic Criticism. A Reappraisal Karen O'BrienNarratives of Enlightenment. Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon2000Marina WarnerNo Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making MockJoanne WilkesLord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition 2001Annette PeachPortraits of ByronLucy NewlynReading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception2002Wendy DonigerThe Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and MasqueradeKate FlintThe Victorians and the Visual Imagination2003Jane StablerByron, Poetics and HistoryClaire TomalinSamuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self2004Maud EllmannElizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the PageAnne StottHannah More: The First Victorian2005Claire PrestonThomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern ScienceJudith Farr with Louise CarterThe Gardens of Emily Dickinson2006Rosalind BallasterFabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-17852007Susan OliverScott, Byron and the Politics of Cultural Encounter2008Helen SmallThe Long Life2009Frances WilsonThe Ballad of Dorothy WordsworthMolly MahoodThe Poet as Botanist2010Daisy HayYoung Romantics2011Fiona StaffordLocal Attachments: The Province of Poetry2012Julie SandersThe Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 1620-16502014Hannah SullivanThe Work of Revision2015 Catherine BatesMasculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser Ankhi MukherjeeWhat is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon 2016Lyndsey StonebridgeThe Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg 2017Kate BennettJohn Aubrey: Brief Lives with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers 2018Emma J. CleryEighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis"Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals", The British Academy, 20 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.2019Marina MacKayIan Watt: the Novel and Wartime Critic2020Marion TurnerChaucer: A European Life2021 Helen MooreAmadis in English, a Study in the Reading of Romance Gillian RussellThe Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting 2022Erica McAlpineThe Poet's Mistake2023 Noémie NdiayeScripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race Claire PettitSerial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 2024Katrin EttenhuberThe Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition and Argument, 1479-1630

See also

List of literary awards honoring women Awards of the British Academy

References

External links Includes list of winners since 2000