Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell

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Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (1902-1963) was an English historian, writer and archivist.

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She won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Medal in 1936, [1] [2] and in 1938 won the British Archaeological Association'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 John Free, From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century. [3] [4] After marrying Mr J. A. 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", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 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 R. J. Mitchell, "A Renaissance Library: The Collection of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester", The Library, xviii (1937), pp. 67–83. 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, English Historical Review, liv (1939), pp. 362–63; A. Steel in History, xxiv (1939), pp. 143–45; A. L. Rowse in The Spectator, 6 May 1938, pp. 816–18; and [D. M. M. Morrah] in Times Literary Supplement, 2 July 1938, p. 445.