Background
Born Doris Mary Parsons, she was the daughter of John Parsons and his wife Amelia Wadhams. She was their only child and was born in Reading, Berkshire on 27 August 1894. Her father was a cabinet-maker.
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Doris Stenton
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She attended the Abbey School in Reading before entering the University College at Reading in 1912.
Career
She earned a first-class London degree in 1916. This project led to the first of Stenton"s editorial jobs, the edition of The Earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, Anno Domini 1202–1209 which was published by the Lincoln Record Society in 1926. Another fruit of the Lincoln project was the revival of the Pipe Roll Society, which had become dormant.
In 1922, the Stentons, along with Canon Foster of Lincoln Cathedral and Leonard Owen began discussions that revived the Society.
Further conversations led to Doris Stenton being appointed organizing secretary of the Society in 1923. lieutenant was mainly due to her efforts that the society became an important publishing source for medieval historians.
In 1948 Stenton earned a Doctor of Letters degree from Reading, and in 1953 she was elected to the British Academy. Other honours included honorary doctorates from Glasgow University and Oxford University and being selected as an honorary fellow at Street Hilda"s College at Oxford.
She became a senior lecturer in the history department at Reading in 1952 and a reader in that department in 1955.
Up until Frank Stenton"s death in 1967, both Stentons were engaged in numerous writing projects, but after her husband"s death, Stenton concentrated on completing the third edition of his Anglo-Saxon England as well as issuing a collected edition of his papers. She completed that in 1971. She was troubled by deafness in her last years, and died on 29 December 1971 at Reading after an illness that lasted a week.
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