Background
Helen Darbishire was born in Oxford, the daughter of Samuel Dukinfield Darbishire, a physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary.
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The Early Lives of Milton
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Helen Darbishire
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She was educated at Oxford Girls" High School before going as a scholar to Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated first-class in English in 1903.
Career
After being a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College, she returned to Somerville as a tutor in English in 1908. In 1925-1926 she held a visiting professorship at Wellesley College. On her return to Oxford she was appointed university lecturer.
In 1931 she succeeded Margery Fry as principal of Somerville, resigning her university lectureship (though continuing to teach and lecture).
Darbishire remained principal of Somerville until her retirement in 1945, overseeing considerable building expansion at the college. Her work as a literary scholar focussed on Milton and Wordsworth.
