Dorothy De Navarro
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Dorothy De Navarro (1901–1987) was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, who specialised in Anglo-Saxon literature.
De Navarro, then Dorothy Hoare, was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and took her B.A. at Aberdeen University with First Class Honours in English and a gold medal. She took her M.A. in 1923.[1]
She earned a Carnegie Fellowship from Aberdeen to continue her studies at the University of Cambridge from 1926 to 1929, residing in Newnham College. She took her PhD from Cambridge in 1929.[1]
She worked in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at Camrbridge, where she taught early medieval literature, as an Assistant Lecturer from 1930 to 1932 and Lecturer of English from 1932 to 1949, retiring in 1956.[2][1] She held positions at Newnham including member of council 1935–1941, 1951–1952 and Secretary 1936–1941. She was an Associate Fellow of Newnham from 1950 to 1952. She was a member of the faculty boards of English, Archaeology and Anthropology from 1936 to 1956.
De Navarro supervised Rachel Sheldon Bromwich as an undergraduate. Bromwich would go on to be an academic herself, publishing a "seminal" edition of the Welsh Triads, Trioedd Ynys Prydein, in 1961.[3]
Published works
Hoare published The Works of Morris and Yeats in relation to early Saga literature (1937), Some studies in the Modern Novel (1938), and an introduction to Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1938). She edited, with her husband, A. C. Jessup's The Lady of the Winding Stair and other poems (1957) and edited her father B. G. Hoare's Collection of Poems (1950). She also published in journals.