Janet Spens


Janet Spens was a Scottish literary scholar specialising in Elizabethan literature. She was the assistant to Regius Professor Macneile Dixon in the Department of English Language and Literature and "tutor to the women students in Arts" at the University of Glasgow, before joining Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a fellow and tutor in English. In 1910, she became the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Glasgow.

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