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Legge has been described as "extremely generous and supportive to students and young colleagues", and she would often invite them to her small flat at 204 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, "the walls of which were covered with pictures mostly of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists, including
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and other scholars investigated Arthurian legends. Legge was appointed Mary Somerville research fellow in 1935, and in 1937 she became a founding member of the
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George du Maurier and J. B. Yeats; there they would be offered tea or coffee and warned to be careful with the cups because 'Oscar Wilde drank from them'."
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Legge's reputation as a scholar was widely acknowledged by the academic community through election to various fellowships. She was elected a fellow of the
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In her retirement, Legge continued to be academically active, attending conferences and continuing to undertake research.
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where she specialised in Medieval French, and in particular the Anglo-Norman language, under the guidance of
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Anglo-Norman in the cloisters. The influence of the orders upon Anglo-Norman literature
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Le Roman de Balain. A prose romance of the thirteenth century
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Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
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With an introduction by Eugène Vinaver, Manchester 1942
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Legge received an education at Liverpool College in
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Bayswater
London
Oxford
Oxfordshire
Somerville College, Oxford
FBA
Anglo-Norman language
Bayswater
James Legge
Liverpool
Huyton
Somerville College, Oxford
Mildred Pope
Selden Society
Henry Jenner
Eugène Vinaver
Roger Sherman Loomis
Anglo-Norman Text Society
Somerville College Boat Club
University of Edinburgh
Royal Historical Society
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Medieval Academy of America
Fellow of the British Academy
Ordre des Palmes académiques
Oxford
Ruth J. Dean
Historical Research

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