Eleanore Boswell

American English professor (1897–1966)

Eleanore Boswell Murrie
From Bryn Mawr College Yearbook Class of 1921
Born	Eleanore Boswell (1897-08-04)4 August 1897 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	4 August 1966(1966-08-04) (aged 69) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College
Subject	English literature
Notable works	The Restoration Court Stage, 1660–1702
Notable awards	Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1933)
Spouse	William Stuart Murrie

Eleanore Boswell (also known as Eleanor Boswell; Eleanore Boswell Murrie; 4 August 1897, Philadelphia – 4 August 1966, Edinburgh) was an American scholar of English literature specialising in the Elizabethan, Commonwealth and Restoration periods. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in the Humanities (1930) and a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1933).

Life

Eleanore Boswell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Germantown High School and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, and joined Bryn Mawr College in 1917 to study English and Greek.^[1] She graduated magna cum laude in 1921.^[2] The same year, she received a European Fellowship to study for a year at Bedford College, London. She returned to Bryn Mawr for her master's degree, which was awarded in 1923.^[3]

Boswell taught English at Rosemary Hall from 1923 and 1925.^[3] She was an executive secretary of the American Association of University Women from 1925 to 1927.^[4] In 1930, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and finished her doctoral degree at the University of London.^[3]

In 1932, Boswell married William Stuart Murrie, a Scottish civil servant.^[5] They lived in London for several years before moving to Edinburgh. They were keen supporters of the Edinburgh International Festival and were responsible for the inclusion of late medieval Scottish drama in the festival.^[6]

Boswell's book The Restoration Court and Stage, published in 1932, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1933.^[7]

Boswell taught English part-time at the University of Edinburgh, where she also began to work towards a D.Litt.^[8]

Eleanore Boswell died on 4 August 1966 at Edinburgh.^[9]

Selected works

Boswell, Eleanore (1932). The Restoration Court Stage, 1660–1702. Harvard University.
Day, Cyrus Lawrence; Boswell Murrie, Eleanore (1940). English song-books, 1651-1702: a bibliography with a first-line index of songs. Oxford University.

References

^ College News 1921.
^ College Yearbook 1921, p. 90.
^ ^a ^b ^c Guggenheim.
^ Evening Star 1929, p. 5.
^ ODNB 2009.
^ Dalyell 1994.
^ Alumnae Bulletin 1934, p. 27.
^ Alumnae Bulletin 1938, p. 36.
^ The Times 1966, p. 10.

Bibliography

"Class Notes". Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. XIV (2). 1934. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
"Class Notes". Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. XVIII (5). 1938. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
"Eleanor Boswell is made European Fellow for 1921". The College News. VII (20). Bryn Mawr College. 23 March 1921. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
"Graduating with Honors". Bryn Mawr College Yearbook: Class of 1921. 1921. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
Dalyell, Tam (9 June 1994). "Obituary: Sir William Murrie". The Independent. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
"Miss Boswell Wins Award of Honor: Former Secretary of University Women Given Fellowship for Research Work". Evening Star. Washington D.C. 8 April 1929. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
"Eleanore Boswell Murrie". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
McClellan, J.F. (2009). "Murrie, Sir William Stuart". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55161. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Obituary". The Times. 6 August 1966.