Dorothy De Navarro
(1901–1987)
Agnes Dorothy MacKenzie de Navarro (née Hoare; 31 July 1901 – 16 April 1987) was a British lecturer at the University of Cambridge, who specialised in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Early life and education
De Navarro was born Agnes Dorothy MacKenzie Hoare on 31 July 1901 in Inverness. Educated at the Inverness Royal Academy, Hoare and took her B.A. at University of Aberdeen with First Class Honours in English and a gold medal. She took her M.A. in 1923.
She earned a Carnegie Fellowship from Aberdeen to continue her studies at the University of Cambridge from 1926 to 1929, residing in Newnham College. She took her PhD from Cambridge in 1929. Under the supervision of Nora K. Chadwick, Hoare's thesis was entitled The Works of Morris and Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature.
Career
She worked in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at Cambridge, where she taught early medieval literature, as an Assistant Lecturer from 1930 to 1932 and Lecturer of English from 1932 to 1949, retiring in 1956. She held positions at Newnham including member of council 1935–1941, 1951–1952 and Secretary 1936–1941. She was an Associate Fellow of Newnham from 1950 to 1952.
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