Background
She was the daughter of a Rector the Revd Francis Arthur Mann and was educated first at home and later at York College for Girls.
She was the daughter of a Rector the Revd Francis Arthur Mann and was educated first at home and later at York College for Girls.
Somerville College.
She is most noted for work on Erasmus. Her academic career started with posts at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Manchester and then at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford University. She studied further in Paris getting her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Paris in 1934.
She became a Fellow of Newnham College, Oxford in 1936 and lectured in French until 1945.
After a period away from academia she returned to teaching in the late nineteen fifties. Warburg Institute and at
Honorary Fellow University College London
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.