Anne Mary Hudson, FBA, FRHistS (28 August 1938 – 8 December 2021) was a British literary historian and academic. She was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1963 to 2003, and Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2003.
Anne Hudson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Mary Hudson 28 August 1938 |
| Died | 8 December 2021 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Dartford Grammar School for Girls |
| Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English Literature |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University of Oxford |
Early life and education
editHudson was born on 28 August 1938. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, an all-girls state grammar school in Dartford, Kent. From 1957 to 1960, she studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree;[1][2] as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree. She also undertook postgraduate research at Oxford in relation to Robert of Gloucester's English chronicle,[2] and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1964.[1]
Academic career
editFrom 1961 to 1963 Hudson was a college lecturer in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 1963, she was elected a Fellow of LMH and appointed a Tutor in English. She also held positions in the Faculty of English Language and Literature of University of Oxford: she was a CUF lecturer from 1963 to 1981, a special lecturer from 1981 to 1983, held a British Academy Readership in the Humanities from 1983 to 1986, was a lecturer in Medieval English from 1986 to 1989, before being appointed Professor of Medieval English in 1989.[1] She retired from full-time academia in 2003, and was made an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.[1][3]
In addition to her university posts she held a number of senior appointments at the Early English Text Society: she served as its executive secretary from 1969 to 1982 and as its director from 2006 to 2013, and she was a member of its council since 1982.[1]
Hudson's research interests included John Wycliffe, Wycliffite writing and the Lollards.[4][2]
Honours
editIn 1976 Hudson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[1][5] She has twice been awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy; in 1985 and in 1991.[6] In 1988 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[1][7]
A Festschrift was published in her honour in 2005: Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, edited by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison.[8]
Later life
editSelected works
edit- Hudson, Anne, ed. (1978). Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521282581.
- Hudson, Anne (1988). The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822762-5.
- Hudson, Anne, ed. (1993). Two Wycliffite Texts: The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, the Testimony of William Thorpe 1407. Oxford: Early English Text Society. ISBN 978-0-19-722303-1.
- Biller, Peter; Hudson, Anne, eds. (1996). Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57576-8.
- Hudson, Anne (2003). Lollards and their Books. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-907628-60-6.
- Hudson, Anne (2008). Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5964-8.
- Hudson, Anne (2015). Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78138-131-1.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g 'HUDSON, Prof. Anne Mary', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 22 Nov 2017
- ^ a b c "Professor Anne Hudson FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Honorary and Emeritus Fellows". Lady Margaret Hall. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Professor Anne Hudson". Faculty of English. University of Oxford. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Fellows – H" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. May 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ MEMORIAL PRIZE" (PDF). British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Professor Anne Hudson". British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ Barr, Helen; Hutchison, Ann M., eds. (2005). Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2503522098.
- ^ Michael Fraser [@drmikefraser] (9 December 2021). "In memory of Professor Anne Hudson FBA (1938-2021), Honorary Fellow @lmhoxford, who very sadly died on 8 Dec 2021. A remarkable scholar & wonderful friend; even a year ago was still active as co-investigator with @e_solopova on Wycliffite Bible research" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 December 2021 – via Twitter.