Margaret Mann Phillips

Margaret Mann Phillips (1906-1987) was a British academic who specialized in Renaissance literature and history. She is most noted for her work on Erasmus.

Early life

Phillips was the daughter of a rector, the Revd. Francis Arthur Mann, and was educated first at home and later at the now-closed York College for Girls. In 1928, she won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford University, graduating in 1927 with a first in French. In 1940, Phillips married Charles William Phillips.

Career

Phillips' academic career started with posts at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Manchester and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She studied further in Paris getting her PhD from the University of Paris in 1934. Phillips became a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University, in 1936 and lectured in French until 1945. After a period away from academia she returned to teaching in the late 1950s.

Appointments

Her appointments and fellowships included:

• Warburg Institute
• Honorary Fellow. University College London
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Selected publications

• Erasmus and the northern Renaissance. Hodder & Stoughton for the English Universities Press, 1949.
• The "Adages" of Erasmus; a study with translations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1964.