Nora Kershaw Chadwick
| Nora Kershaw Chadwick CBE, FSA, FBA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1891 | ||||||||
| Died | 1972 | ||||||||
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Paper Mills, Newmarket Road, Cambridge 1 Adams Road, Cambridge [1949] | ||||||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1943-44 Member
RAI Council 1944-45 Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Member
RAI Council 1947-48 Member
RAI Council 1948-49 Member
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
House Notes
1931.02.24 proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by L.C.G. Clarke
Notes From Elsewhere
Nora Kershaw Chadwick CBE FSA FBA (28 January 1891 – 24 April 1972)[1] was an English medievalist
Mrs. Chadwick was born in Lancashire in 1891. Nora was the first daughter of James Kershaw and Emma Clara Booth, married in 1888. Their second daughter was Mabel born in 1895.
Nora received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and lectured at St Andrews during World War I. She returned to Cambridge in 1919 to study Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse under Professor Hector Munro Chadwick. They were married in 1922.[2] The Chadwicks turned their home into a literary salon, a tradition which Mrs. Chadwick maintained after the death of her husband in 1947.[2] Most of her life was spent on research, mainly into the Celts.[3] She was University Lecturer in the Early History and Culture of the British Isles, University of Cambridge, 1950–58. Mrs. Chadwick received honorary degrees from the University of Wales, the National University of Ireland and the University of St Andrews, and she was a respected scholar. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1961.[
Publications
External Publications
· The Growth of Literature was published in 1932. She published a series on Russian literature:
I: The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932)
II: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936)
III: The Oral Literature of the Tatars and Polynesia, etc. (1940)
She also wrote The Beginnings of Russian History, an enquiry into sources (1946).
· Chadwick collaborated with · V. M. Zhirmunsky on a revision of the part of volume III that deals with epic poetry in Central Asian languages. The revised text was published separately in 1969 as Oral Epics of Central Asia.
In 1955 she wrote Poetry and Letters in early Christian Gaul.
· Chadwick wrote about Celtic Britain and Breton history, and collaborated with · Myles Dillon and · Kenneth H. Jackson.
In 1949 she wrote Early Scotland.
In 1954 she published Studies in Early British History.
In 1963 she wrote Celtic Britain (ancient people and places).
In 1964 she wrote The Age of Saints in the Celtic Church.
In 1965 she published The colonization of Brittany from Celtic Britain.
in 1966 she wrote The Druids
In 1967 she wrote Celtic Realms with Myles Dillon.
In 1970 she wrote The Celts with an introductory chapter by Dr. J.X.W.P.Corcoran: The Origins of the Celts: The Archaeological Evidence.[3]
· Nora Chadwick also wrote about the Anglo-Saxon language:
In 1955 she published The Study of Anglo-Saxon with her husband.
· Chadwick is also well known for her famous essay, "The Monsters and · Beowulf" in which she argues that · Grendel's mother might have been a · goddess from · Norse mythology, possibly the myth of the · Valkyries.
House Publications
Notes on Polynesian mythology 1930
The kite: a study in Polynesian tradition 1931
Shamanism among Tartars of Central Asia 1936
The spiritual ideas and experiences of the Tartars of Central Asia 1936
The distribution of oral literature in the Old World 1939
