Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell

Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (born 1902) was an English author and archivist.

She won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Medal in 1936[1][2] and in 1938 won the British Archaeological Society's Reginald Taylor Prize. Roberto Weiss cited her in his book Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century[1] and she cited him in her book From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century.[3][4] After marrying Mr Leys "she chose not to seek an academic post".[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 David Rundle. "Editor's Introduction to the fourth edition of Roberto Weiss, Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century". academia.edu. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. Her Alexander Prize Essay was published as R. J. Mitchell, ‘English students at Padua”, TRHS, 4th ser., xix (1936), pp. 101 – 117
  3. R. J. Mitchell,John Free. From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century (London, 1955), p. vii.
  4. To the citations in Weiss’s bibliography could have been added R. J. Mitchell, ‘English students at Ferrara in the fifteenth century’, Italian Studies, i (1937), pp.75 – 82 and ead., ‘A Renaissance Library: The Collection of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester’,The Library, xviii (1937), pp. 67 – 83; see also the authorial and editorial addenda at pp. 46, 175 and 180 below. Her John Tiptoft (1427 – 1470) (London, 1938) – a now rare volume as stocks of it were destroyed during the Blitz – was positively reviewed by Cecilia Ady in Italian Studies, i (1938), pp. 177 – 78 (though the journal attributes the work to ‘Ruth J. Mitchell’); cf. E. F. Jacob, EHR, liv (1939), pp. 362 – 63, A. Steel in History, xxiv (1939), pp. 143 – 45; A. L. Rowse in The Spectator, May 6, 1938, pp. 816 – 18, and [D. M. M. Morrah] in Times Literary Supplement, July 2, 1938, p. 445.


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