Quain Prize Essay

Scope and Content

'The Jealousy Theme in Shakespeare', (ts.)Quain Prize Essay, UCL English Dept, 1950 by Margaret L Walk (ne Woodhead), 69 ff.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Quain Essay Prize was founded with the Quain Studentship in Biology and the Quain Studentship in English under the will of Richard Quain, F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, 1832-1850, and of Clinical Surgery, 1850-1866, who desired the name of his brother, Sir John Richard Quain, to be associated with his own in regard to this bequest.

The Prize is awarded by the Council on the recommendation of the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. A candidate must be, or at any time during the previous three sessions have been, a student of the College in the Department of English. Candidates may write an essay on a subject of their own choosing, within the broad field of English language studies, subject to the approval in each case of the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature for the time being.

Margaret Louise Walk studied in the UCL Department of English from 1947-1953, gaining her BA Hons in English in 1951, and her MA in 1953. She was awarded the Ker Memorial Prize in 1948 and the Rosa Morison Scholarship in 1953. In 1971 she returned to UCL and gained the Diploma of Archive Administration, as well as the Churchill-Jenkinson Prize.

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Acquisition Information

Transferred Mar 2000 from Margaret Louise Walk.