Léonie Villard Explained

Léonie Villard (1890–1962) was a French literary critic and professor at the Université de Lyon. She was the first woman to be a professor of literature at a French university.^[1] In 1917 she received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book, Jane Austen: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre.^[2] She was also a member of the faculty of Mount Holyoke College in 1937 and 1950–1951. The college holds her diary of life in Vichy France during the Second World War.^[1]

Selected publications

• Jane Austen: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre. 1915.
• La Femme anglaise au XIXe siècle et son évolution d'après le roman anglais contemporain. Paris, 1920.
• Le Théâtre Américain. Boivin & Cie, Paris, c. 1929.
• La Poésie Américaine. Trois siècles de poésie lyrique et de poèmes narratifs. Paris, 1945.
• Essai de Psychologie de la Grammaire Anglaise. Paris, 1957.

Notes and References

1. https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm179.html Léonie Villard Journal, 1940 June 17-1944 Sept. 21.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20180924201850/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AHo-VNO_ef1UJ%3Awww.britac.ac.uk%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FRose%2520Mary%2520Crawshay%2520Prize%2520pre-2000.pdf+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.