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Elizabeth Mary Wright

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lectures. During her third year, he enquired about her willingness "to do eventually some original work" and she subsequently worked under him to prepare a grammar of the dialect of
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entry they are recorded as being described by contemporaries as "the happiest couple in Oxford". They had two children who died in childhood. She died in 1958 and was buried in
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in six volumes between 1898 and 1905. Elizabeth undertook most of the secretarial work for the dictionary which included numerous letters and "50,000 prospectuses".
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After Joseph's death in 1930, Elizabeth published a two-volume biography of him. In Joseph Wright's
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on 10 October 1863, the eldest daughter of an Anglican clergyman. After a year in
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in her second year at Lady Margaret Hall, when she attended his
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Joseph and Elizabeth Wright with their children, c. 1907.
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On 2 July 1934 Wright was awarded an honorary degree of
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Elizabeth Wright (linguist)

Joseph Wright
Alma mater
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
linguist
folklorist
East End of London
Somerset
Tedstone Delamere
Herefordshire
Sophie Weisse
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
matriculating
Joseph Wright
Old English
Northumbria
The English Dialect Dictionary
Doctor of Letters
University of Leeds
Dictionary of National Biography
Wolvercote Cemetery

Rustic Speech and Folk-lore
Oxford University Press
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Old English Grammar
Elementary Old English Grammar
Elementary Middle English Grammar

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