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Marilyn Butler

British literary critic & academic · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1937 to 2014 · aged 77

Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler, FRSA, FRSL, FBA was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004.

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Awards

Honorary Doctorate2003
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

About this person

She was the first female head of a formerly all-male Oxford or Cambridge college. She won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1973.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1937 to 2014 · aged 77