Rachel Trickett
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Rachel Trickett (December 20, 1923 – June 24, 1999) was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991.
Trickett was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She became a lecturer in English at the University of Hull in 1946 and in 1954 she returned to Oxford as a fellow and tutor at St Hugh’s College.
Trickett was the author of the novel The Return Home (London, Constable & Co., 1952), and of The Course of Love (London, Constable & Co., 1954). Her The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustan Verse was published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1967.
It is said that ‘she had a wicked eye for the conceit of academics, their insularity and devious manipulations’,[1] an attitude which made her a soul‑mate of Erich Heller.
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The Times (London), June 25, 1999, p. 29 [obituary].
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- ^ Michael Gearin-Tosh, ‘Rachel Trickett’, The Independent (London), June 30, 1999.
