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]

Bibliography

• English People of the Past (1931)
• Life and Adventure in Medieval Europe (1934)
• Ye Good Olde Dayes (with Ierne Arthur Lifford Plunket, 1934)
• John Tiptoft, 1427-1470 (1938)
• A History of the English People (with M.D.R. Leys, Longmans, Green and Co, 1950)
• A History of London Life (with M. D. R. Leys, Pelican Books, 1958)
• The Medieval Feast (1958)
• The Medieval Tournament (1958)
• A Country Doctor in the Days of Queen Anne (1959)
• The Laurels and the Tiara: Pope Pius II, 1458-1464 (1962)
• The Spring Voyage: The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458 (1964)

References

1. 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.