Phyllis Hartnoll (22 September 1906, in

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– 8 January 1997, in

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) was a British poet, author and editor. Hartnoll was educated at

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and read English at

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,Jack Readin
"Obituary: Phyllis Hartnoll"
''The Independent'', 25 January 1997 winning the

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for poetry in 1929, and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers Macmillan. As a theatre historian, she was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research in 1948; the other founders contributed to her ''Oxford Companion to the Theatre'', the first edition of which appeared in 1951. A collection of her poems, ''The maid's song and other poems'', was published by Macmillan in 1938. She wrote the introduction to the

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'' Zastrozzi'' by

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which was republished in a limited edition by the

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in 1955.

Selected publications

*''Oxford Companion to the Theatre'' (1951: Oxford UP; 2nd ed, 1957; 3rd ed 1967)

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1906 births 1997 deaths English women poets People educated at Heathfield School, Ascot 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English poets British expatriates in Egypt {{UK-poet-stub