Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars.

Description

Suffragist Rose Mary Crawshay in the 1870s from the Peoples Collection of Wales

It was inaugurated in 1888 and is said by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize for female scholars.[1] Two prizes can be awarded in any one year: "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".[2] The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is now "only" £500, but it provides a valuable recognition for non-fiction women writers. It has been awards since 1916 by the British Academy.[3]

The prize was established by Rose Mary Crawshay as the Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Prize Fund.[4]

Winners

Winners of the award have been:[5]

Year	Winner	Book	ISBN
1916	Charlotte Carmichael Stopes	Shakespeare's Environment
1917	Leonie Villard	Jane Austen: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre
	M. Stawell	Shelley's Triumph of Life (published in Vol. 5 of Essays and Studies by members of the English Association)
1918	Grace Dulais Davies	Historical Fiction of the Eighteenth Century
1919	Mary Paton Ramsay	Les Doctrines Medievales Chez Donne
1920	Jessie L. Weston	From Ritual to Romance
1921	M.E. Seaton	A 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 Myths
1922	E.C. Batho	James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd
1923	Joyce H.S. Tompkins	For a study of the Work of Mrs Radcliffe
1924	Madeleine L. Cazamian	Le Roman et les Idees en Angleterre- Influence de la Science, 1860-1890
1925	No Award
1926	E.R. Dodds (Miss A.E. Powell)	The Romantic Theory of Poetry: an Examination in the light of Croce's Aesthetic
1927	Alice Galimberti L'Aedo d'Italia (A.C. Swinburne)	Biblioteca Sandron (1925)
1928	Enid Welsford	The Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship between Poetry and the Revels (Cambridge, 1927)
1929	Hope Emily Allen	The Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for his Biography (Modern Language Association of America, 1927)
1930	U.M. Ellis-Fermor	For her work on Christopher Marlowe and her edition of Marlowe's Tamburlaine
1931	Janet G. Scott	Les Sonnets Elisabethains (Champion, Paris, 1929)
1932	Helen Derbishire	The Manuscript of Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Clarendon Press, 1931)
1933	Eleanore Boswell	The Restoration Court Stage, 1660-1702 (Harvard University Press, 1932)
1934	Dottore Giovanna Foa	Lord Byron, Poeta e Carbonaro (unpublished)
1935	Hildegarde Schumann	The Romantic Elements in John Keats' Writings
1936	Caroline Spurgeon	Shakespeare's Imagery
1937	Frances A. Yates	John Florio (Cambridge University Press, 1934)
1938	Dorothy Hewlett (Mrs Kilgour)	Adonais
1939	No Award
1940	Mary Lascelles (M.M. Lascelles)	Jane Austen and Her Art (Clarendon Press, 1939)
1941	Julia Power	Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century (University of Nebraska)
1942	Sybil Rosenfeld	Strolling Players and Drama in the Provinces, 1660-1765 (Cambridge University Press)
1943	Kathleen Tillotson	Edition of the Poems of Michael Drayton
1944	Katherine Balderston	Thraliana (Clarendon Press, 1942)
1945	Rae Blanchard	The Correspondence of Richard Steele (Oxford University Press, 1941)
1946	No Award
1947	M.H. Nicolson	Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's "Opticks" and the Eighteenth Century Poets (Princeton University Press)
1948	No Award
1949	Rosemond Tuve	Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery
1950	Helen Darbishire	For her Clark Lectures and collaboration in an edition Wordsworth's Poetical Works
1951	Rosemary Freeman	For her work on Emblem Books
1952	M.E. Seaton	Abraham Fraunce's Arcadian Rhetorike
1953	Helen Gardner	Divine Poems of John Donne
1954	Alice Walker	Textual Problems of the First Folio
1955	Evelyn M. Simpson	The Sermons of John Donne
1956	Helen Estabrook	Sandison Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges
1957	J.E. Norton	Gibbon's Letters
1958	Mary Moorman	Biography of Wordsworth The Early Years
1959	Kathleen Coburn	Notebooks of S.T. Coleridge, Vol. I., 1794-1804
1960	Joyce Hemlow	Biography of Fanny Burney
1961	Vittoria Sanna	Sir Thomas Browne's “Religio Medici"
1962	Barbara Hardy	The Novels of George Elliot
1963	Joan Bennett	Sir Thomas Brown: His life and Achievement
1964	Aileen Ward	John Keats: The making of a Poet
1965	Madeline House	The Letters of Charles Dickens
1966	Margaret Crum	Poems of Henry King
1967	Enid Welsford	Salisbury Plain, a Study in the Development of Wordsworth's Mind and Art
1968	Winifred Gérin	Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius	ISBN 978-0-19-881152-7
1969	Alethea Hayter	Opium and the Romantic Imagination
1970	Barbara Rooke	Coleridge's "The Friend"
1971	No Award
1972	Valerie Eliot	For her edition of the facsimile of the original drafts of The Waste Land
1973	Marilyn Butler	Maria Edgeworth: A literary Biography
	Christina Colvin	Maria Edgeworth: Letters from England 1813-1844
1974	Jean Robertson	Her edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia
1975	Doris Langley Moore	Lord Byron -Accounts Rendered
1976	Hilary Spurling	Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 [6]
1977	Harriet Hawkins	Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth
1978	Lyndall Gordon	Eliot's Early Years
1979	Elizabeth Murray	Caught in the Web of Words
	Joan Rees	Shakespeare and the Story
1980	Helen Gardner	The composition of the Four Quartets
1981	Helen Peters	Her edition of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems
1982	Mary Lascelles	The Story-Teller Retrieves the Past: Historical Fiction and Fictitious History in the Art of Scott, Stevenson, Kipling and some others
	Annabelle Terhune	Her edition of Edward Fitzgerald's Complete Letters
1983	Claire Lamont	Her edition of Scott's Waverley
1984	Christine Alexander	The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë [7]	ISBN 0-631-12991-X
	Gillian Beer	Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction [8]
1985	Penelope Fitzgerald	Charlotte Mew and her Friends
	Anthea Hume	Edmund Spenser: Protestant Poet
1986	Margaret Doody	The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered
	Ann Saddlemyer	The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge
1987	Rosemary Cowler	The Prose Works of Alexander Pope
	Iona Opie (with the late Peter Opie)	The Singing Game
1988	Jane Millgate	Scott's Last Edition: A Study in Publishing History
	Kathleen Tillotson	The Letters of Charles Dickens
1989	Valerie Eliot	The Letters of T.S. Eliot 1888-1922
	Margaret Smith	Her edition of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor
1990	Kathleen Coburn	Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. 4th Vol.
	Norma Dalrymple-Champneys	Complete Poetical Works of George Crabbe, ed. 3 Vols
1991	Anne Barton	The Names of Comedy
	Valerie Rumbold	Women's Place in Pope's World
1992	Antonia Forster	Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
1993	Barbara Rosenbaum	Index of Literary Manuscripts, Volume IV, part 2: Hardy to Lamb
	Margaret Reynolds	Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
1994	Margaret Cardwell	Her volume in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations (CUP, 1993)
	Janet Gezari	Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct (Pennsylvania University Press, 1992)
1995	Caroline Franklin	Byron's Heroines (CUP, 1993)[9]
	Jenny Uglow	Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (Faber & Faber, 1993)
1996	Kate Flint	The Woman Reader 1837-1914	ISBN 978-0-19-812185-5
	Ruth Smith	Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth Century Thought	ISBN 978-0-521-02370-2
1997	Hermione Lee	Virginia Woolf (biography)[10]	ISBN 978-0-375-70136-8
1998	Moyra Haslett	Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend	ISBN 978-0-19-818432-4
	Katie Trumpener	Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire	ISBN 978-0-691-04480-4
1999	Elizabet(h) Wright	Psychoanalytic Criticism. A Reappraisal[2]	ISBN 978-0-415-92145-9
	Karen O'Brien	Narratives of Enlightenment. Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon	ISBN 9780521619448
2000	Marina Warner	No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock[1]	ISBN 978-0-374-22301-4
	Joanne Wilkes	Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition[1]	ISBN 978-1-84014-699-8
2001	Annette Peach	Portraits of Byron[2]
	Lucy Newlyn	Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception[2]	ISBN 978-0-19-818711-0
2002	Wendy Doniger	The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade[2]	ISBN 978-0-226-15643-9
	Kate Flint	The Victorians and the Visual Imagination[2]	ISBN 978-0-521-08952-4
2003	Jane Stabler	Byron, Poetics and History[11]	ISBN 978-0-521-81241-2
	Claire Tomalin	Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self[2]	ISBN 978-0-375-72553-1
2004	Maud Ellmann	Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page[2]	ISBN 978-0-7486-1703-6
	Anne Stott	Hannah More: The First Victorian[2]	ISBN 978-0-19-927488-8
2005	Claire Preston	Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science[12]	ISBN 978-0-521-83794-1
	Judith Farr with Louise Carter	The Gardens of Emily Dickinson[2]	ISBN 978-0-674-01829-7
2006	Rosalind Ballaster	Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785[2]	ISBN 978-0-19-923429-5
2007	Susan Oliver	Scott, Byron and the Politics of Cultural Encounter[13]
2008	Helen Small	The Long Life[14]	ISBN 978-0-19-922993-2
2009	Frances Wilson	The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth[15]	ISBN 978-0-571-23047-1
	Molly Mahood	The Poet as Botanist	ISBN 978-0-521-86236-3
2010	Daisy Hay	Young Romantics[16]	ISBN 0-7475-8627-6
2011	Fiona Stafford	Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry[17]	ISBN 0-19-955816-7
2012	Julie Sanders	The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 1620-1650[18]	ISBN 1-107-00334-2
2014	Hannah Sullivan	The Work of Revision[19]	ISBN 0-674-07312-6
2015	Catherine Bates	Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser[20]	ISBN 978-0199657117
	Ankhi Mukherjee	What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon[20]	ISBN 9780804785211
2016	Lyndsey Stonebridge	The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg[20]	ISBN 978-0748642359
2017	Kate Bennett	John Aubrey: Brief Lives with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers[21]	ISBN 978-0199689538
2018	Emma J. Clery	Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis[22]	ISBN 978-1107189225

See also

• List of literary awards honoring women
• Awards of the British Academy

References

1. "Winners of academic book prize for women writers". 7 July 1999 (actually 2000?). Retrieved 2009-01-04. The winners of the UK’s only book prize for female scholars... Set up in 1888, the annual Rose Mary Crawshay Prize celebrates outstanding published works by women on any subject concerned with English literature. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. British Academy. "Rose Mary Crawshay prizes". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
3. Mosalski, Ruth (6 February 2018). "The legacy left behind by three Welsh suffragists". walesonline. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
4. "Medals and Prizes". British Academy. Retrieved 4 January 2009. In 1888 Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay established the Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Prize fund. After her death, administration of the fund was transferred to the Academy. Two prizes are now normally awarded each year to women who have published recently an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject concerned with English literature.
5. The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. British Academy via Internet Archive. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
6. "Hilary Spurling". British Council. Archived from the original on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
7. "Christine Alexander". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
8. "Gillian Beer". British Council. Archived from the original on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
9. "Professor Caroline Franklin". Swansea University. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
10. "Hermione Lee". her acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf won the 1997 British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature.
11. "Dr Jane Stabler wins Rose Mary Crawshay Prize". University of Dundee. Archived from the original on 3 July 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2004. The book uses new archival research into Byron’s correspondence and reading to trace the complexities of his work. Dr. Stabler argues that from his early satires to Don Juan, Byron’s poetics developed in response to his reception by the English reading public.
12. "Recent Winner of the 2005 British Academy Crawshay Prize". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2009. Dr. Preston pays due and discriminating attention to the way Browne writes, and those characteristics of his prose that make him so strikingly individual and memorable in a period (after all) of other great prose writers.
13. "2007: Dr Susan Oliver". British Academy. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2009. Her prize-winning book, her first monograph, entitled Scott, Byron and the Politics of Cultural Encounter, published by Palgrave, is an innovative, scholarly and adventurous piece of literary history and cultural analysis.
14. "2008: Dr Helen W Small, Fellow and Tutor in English, Pembroke College, Oxford". British Academy. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Helen Small's subject in The Long Life is formidable: old age, or dying at the right time, 'being old and full of days'. Such a death enables one to die when old but not miserable, correctly mourned by a numerous and prosperous family.
15. "Rose Mary Crawshay Prizes Recent Winners". British Academy. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
16. "BRITISH ACADEMY UNVEILS PRESIDENT'S MEDAL". British Academy. 25 November 2010. Archived from the original on 28 April 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
17. "Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 2011 - British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
18. "British Academy honor for Nottingham scholar". EurekAlert. 2 August 2012.
19. "Dr Hannah Sullivan is awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize". New College. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
20. "Rose Mary Crawshay Prize". British Academy. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
21. "Prize and medal winners 2017". The British Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
22. "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.

External links

• "Rose Mary Crawshay Prize". British Academy. Includes list of winners since 2000
• "Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (pre-2000 winners)" (PDF). British Academy.