Agnes Jane Robertson M.A.

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

(1893–1959) was a British historian of

Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or early medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Empire, Roman imperial rule in Roman Britain, Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Compared to modern England, the territory of the ...

. She was a student of

Hector Munro Chadwick Hector Munro Chadwick (22 October 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English philologist. Chadwick was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and the founder and head of the Department for Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the Un ...

in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the

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, matriculating in about 1918. She was a Pfeiffer Research Fellow of

Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the un ...

and a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies between 1932 and 1935. She was later a reader in English language at the

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, which gives the Agnes Jane Robertson Memorial Lecture in her honour. Robertson edited and translated two volumes of Anglo-Saxon documents, ''The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I'', published in 1925, and ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'', in 1939, with a second edition in 1956. A facsimile reprint was published in 2009.Robertson, ''Anglo-Saxon Charters''

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1893 births 1959 deaths Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge 20th-century English historians British women historians 20th-century women writers Anglo-Saxon studies scholars {{UK-historian-stub