Florence Stawell

Florence Stawell

Florence Melian Stawell (2 May 1869 – 9 June 1936) was a classical scholar.

Florence M. Stawell, youngest daughter of Sir William Foster Stawell, was born at Melbourne on 2 May 1869. She spent two years at the University of Melbourne and then went to England and entered Newnham College, Cambridge, in the May term of 1889. She was placed in class 1 division 1 in the classical tripos of 1892 but did not take part II of the tripos. In 1894-5 Miss Stawell was a classical don at Newnham, but had to resign on account of ill-health, and henceforth lived chiefly at London with occasional visits to her relations in Australia.

In 1909 she published "Homer and the Iliad: an Essay to determine the Scope and Character of the Original Poem", an important and scholarly contribution to the literature of the subject. In 1911 she offered an interpretation of the Phaistos Disc as Homeric Greek, syllabic writing.

In 1918 she prepared "The Price of Freedom, an Anthology for all Nations", and five years later in collaboration with Francis Sydney Marvin brought out "The Making of the Western Mind". She was associated with Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson in the production of "Goethe and Faust; an Interpretation", which appeared in 1928. Miss Stawell's next book was a translation in English verse of the "Iphigeneia at Aulis" of Euripides, which was published in 1929, and an excellent little book in the home university library on "The Growth of International Thought" belongs to the same year.

She had been doing much work on the Minoan script and in 1931 published "A Clue to the Cretan Scripts". "The Practical Wisdom of Goethe: an Anthology", which appeared in 1933, was partly translated by her. She died at Oxford on 9 June 1936.

Miss Stawell was an excellent classical scholar to whom Greek was one of the most living of languages. Frail of body, she had an ardent and energetic spirit, and with better health she would have taken an even more distinguished place among the classical scholars of her period.

References

*Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Florence|Last=Stawell|Link=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogSt-Sy.html#stawell1

External links

*K. J. McKay, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120069b.htm Stawell, Florence Melian (1869 - 1936)] ', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Pressю, 1990, pp 55-56.


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