senior lecturer Professor of English Language
She took her Bachelor in English at Leeds University from 1925-1928, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy there in 1930: "A typographical study of the sagas of the Vestfirðir: Gull-Þórissaga, Gíslasaga, Hávarðarsaga, Fóstbrœðrasaga and of their traditions".
On his death in 1938, and with four children under 7 to support, she took on some of his teaching duties, working as a Lecturer until 1960, when she was promoted to Senior Lecturer. She retired in 1968. She visited Iceland twice, and in 1970 was a visiting professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Pearl, educated by East. V. Gordon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953) (although credited to East V Gordon, Ida worked substantially on this after his death as well as seeing the work through the press)
The Seafarer, educated by I. L. Gordon, Methuen"s Old English Library (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1960)
The Double Sorrow of Troilus: A Study of Ambiguities in "Troilus and Criseyde" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970).
