Background
Mistress Chadwick was born in Lancashire in 1891. Nora was the first daughter of James Kershaw and Emma Clara Booth, married in 1888.
Mistress Chadwick was born in Lancashire in 1891. Nora was the first daughter of James Kershaw and Emma Clara Booth, married in 1888.
University of Cambridge.
Their second daughter was Mabel born in 1895. Nora received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and lectured at Street Andrews during World War I. She returned to Cambridge in 1919 to study Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse under Professor Hector Munro Chadwick. Most of her life was spent on research, mainly into the Celts.
She was University Lecturer in the Early History and Culture of the British Isles, University of Cambridge, 1950-1958.
Chadwick received honorary degrees from the University of Wales, the National University of Ireland and the University of Street Andrews, and she was a respected scholar. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1961.
I: The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932) II: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936) III: The Oral Literature of the Tatars and Polynesia, et cetera (1940) She also wrote The Beginnings of Russian History, an enquiry into sources (1946).
Chadwick collaborated with V. M. Zhirmunsky on a revision of the part of volume III that deals with epic poetry in Central Asian languages.
The revised text was published separately in 1969 as Oral Epics of Central Asia. In 1955 she wrote Poetry and Letters in early Christian Gaul. Chadwick wrote about Celtic Britain and Breton history, and collaborated with Myles Dillon and Kenneth H. Jackson.
In 1949 she wrote Early Scotland.
In 1954 she published Studies in Early British History. In 1963 she wrote Celtic Britain (ancient people and places).
In 1964 she wrote The Age of Saints in the Celtic Church. In 1965 she published The colonization of Brittany from Celtic Britain. in 1966 she wrote The Druids In 1967 she wrote Celtic Realms with Myles Dillon.
In 1970 she wrote The Celts with an introductory chapter by Doctor J.X.W.P.Corcoran: The Origins of the Celts: The Archaeological Evidence.
Nora Chadwick also wrote about the Anglo-Saxon language: A list of the publications of Hector and Nora Chadwick was printed for her 80th birthday in 1971.