Tolkien 2005: “The Ring Goes Ever On”
Aston University, Birmingham; August, 2005
[Photo by Sancho Proudfoot, from File 770]
Priscilla Tolkien
10 April 2022 | Beyond Bree, April, 2022, 1
Priscilla Tolkien has died at the age of 92. She passed away peacefully on 28 February 2022 after a short illness.…
She studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1948 – 51. In the early 1950s, she took secretarial work in Bristol and Birmingham, where she observed urban poverty that led her into a career in social work. After studying social sciences at the London School of Economics in the late 1950s, she worked as a probation officer in Oxford.
Priscilla later returned to academia, teaching social work at the University of Oxford and later at High Wycombe College. She taught English at Beechlawn Tutorial College and tutored literature classes from her home 1982 – 2005.…
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