Julia Bolton Holloway (born 14 April 1937) is a European literary scholar. She is Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Holloway was born on 14 April 1937 in Marylebone, London,[1] and later lived on the pilgrimage road to Canterbury in Sussex.[2] Her parents were the writer John Robert Glorney Bolton and Sybil Margaret Rutherford.[3] She is also the great granddaughter of Sir James Roberts.[1]
Holloway worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967-71; then, while writing the dissertation, Holloway taught at Quincy University (Illinois) from 1971-74. After graduating, she worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University from 1974-1981, where she was among the first generation of women to teach at the university.[5] She then taught in the Humanities and Comparative Literature departments at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1981-92, chairing the Graduate Committee on Medieval Studies before becoming Associate Professor and Director of Medieval Studies, in 1987, and Professor Emerita, in 1992.[4] She also taught as a Visiting Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.[6]
Upon closure of the Order, Holloway left England and became custodian, restorer, researcher, and librarian of the English Cemetery in Florence, which came into her care because she had edited the Penguin Classics edition of Aurora Leigh and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who is buried there. While living here as a hermit nun for over a quarter of a century, she has taught literacy[10] and restoration skills to the Roma workers, who assist her in tending the property.[11]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1996). Bolton, John Robert Glorney; Holloway, Julia Bolton (eds.). Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. New York: Penguin Classics. ISBN978-0140434125.
Julian of Norwich (2001). Reynolds, Sister Anna Maria; Holloway, Julia Bolton (eds.). Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo. ISBN88-8450-095-8.
Holloway, Julia Bolton (2024). Florence's English Cemetery, 1827–1877: Thunders of White Silence. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN978-1-0364-1377-4.
References
1 2 Bolton, Sybil and Glorney (1938). Two Lives Converge: A Dual Autobiography. Blackie & Son Limited. pp.236–246.
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