Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell

Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (born 1902) was an English author and archivist.

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 From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century.^[3][4] After marrying Mr Leys "she chose not to seek an academic post".^[1]

Bibliography

• English People of the Past (1931)
• Life and Adventure in Medieval Europe (1934)
• Ye Good Olde Dayes, with Ierne Arthur Lifford Plunket (1934)
• John Tiptoft, 1427–1470 (1938)
• A History of the English People, with M. D. R. Leys (Longmans, Green and Co, 1950)
• A History of London Life, with M. D. R. Leys (Pelican Books, 1958)
• The Medieval Feast (1958)
• The Medieval Tournament (1958)
• A Country Doctor in the Days of Queen Anne (1959)
• The Laurels and the Tiara: Pope Pius II, 1458–1464 (1962)
• The Spring Voyage: The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458 (1964)

References

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.