- Barbara Reynolds
Barbara Reynolds (born
13 June 1914 ) is an English scholar, lexicographer and translator, wife of the philologist and translatorLewis Thorpe .Early life
The daughter of Alfred Charles Reynolds, and the god-daughter of
Dorothy L. Sayers , Reynolds was educated atSt Paul's Girls' School andUniversity College, London . [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6111760 REYNOLDS, Barbara] at Who's Who online (accessed 26 November 2007)]Career
Reynolds was an assistant lecturer in Italian at the
London School of Economics from 1937 to 1940. During theSecond World War , she was an assistant lecturer (1940–1945) at theUniversity of Cambridge , then University Lecturer in Italian Literature and Language from 1945 to 1962. She was Warden of Willoughby Hall,University of Nottingham , from 1963 to 1969 and Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham from 1966 to 1978. Alongside her teaching work, she was chief executive and General Editor of theCambridge Italian Dictionary from 1948 to 1981 and managing editor of "Seven", an Anglo-American literary review, from 1980 to 2004.Reynolds held the title of Honorary Reader in Italian at the
University of Warwick from 1975 to 1980 and was Visiting Professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , 1974–75, Wheaton College,Illinois , 1977–78, and 1982,Trinity College, Dublin , 1980 and 1981, andHope College ,Michigan , 1982.Major publications
Her major work is the "Cambridge Italian Dictionary", of which she was General Editor. The first volume appeared in 1962 and the second in 1981.
Beyond the Dictionary, her first book was a study of
Alessandro Manzoni .She completed and annotated "Paradiso", the last volume of
Dorothy L. Sayers ' three-volume translation ofDante 's "Divine Comedy ", which was left unfinished at Dorothy Sayers' death. Reynolds afterwards translated Dante's "La Vita Nuova " and Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso " for thePenguin Classics . She has written a study of Dante's life and work, "Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man".In 1993, Reynolds published a biography of Sayers, who was her god-mother, called "Dorothy L. Sayers: Her life and soul" (1993). She has since edited four volumes of Sayers's letters and an additional volume.
Bibliography
* Reynolds, Barbara (2006), "Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man" (
I.B. Tauris )
* Reynolds, Barbara, "Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul" (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; rev. eds 1998, 2002) ISBN 0-340-72845-0Footnotes
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