Margaret Mann Phillips was a British academic who specialized in Renaissance literature and history.

She is most noted for work on Erasmus.

Personal details

She was the daughter of a Rector the Revd Francis Arthur Mann and was educated first at home and later at York College for Girls. In 1928 she won a scholarship to Somerville College Oxford graduating from there in 1927 with a first in French. In 1940 she married Charles William Phillips

Charles Phillips (archaeologist)

Charles William Phillips was a British archaeologist best known for leading the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship, an intact collection of Anglo-Saxon grave-goods, possibly that of the 7th century East Anglian king Raedwald.He was the spouse of Margaret Mann Phillips the Erasmus...

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Career

Her academic career started with posts at the University of Bordeaux and the University of
Manchester and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford University. She studied further in Paris getting her PhD from the University of Paris in 1934. She became a Fellow of Newnham College, Oxford in 1936 and lectured in French until 1945. After a period away from academia she returned to teaching in the late nineteen fifties.

Other appointments

• Warburg Institute and at
• Honorary Fellow University College London
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Publications

• Mann Phillips, Margaret (1949) Erasmus and the northern Renaissance, Hodder & Stoughton for the English Universities Press
• Mann Phillips, Margaret (1964) The "Adages" of Erasmus; a study with translations, Cambridge, University Press