Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
In April 1888 Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay established ‘The Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Yearly Prize Fund’. In 1914, some years after her death, the Charity Commissioners transferred the administration of the prize fund to the Academy. The prize is awarded to a woman of any nationality for a historical or critical work on any subject connected with English Literature. (Under the original terms, preference was given to a work regarding Byron, Shelley or Keats.)
Nominating body: Sections H5 and H6.
Recent winners
(The current convention is that one prize is awarded each year, but the list below shows that in the past there have often been two winners in a year.)
2012: Professor Julie Sanders for The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 1620-1650
2011: Professor Fiona Stafford for Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry (Oxford University Press)
2010: Dr Daisy Hay for Young Romantics (Bloomsbury)
2009: Frances Wilson for The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth (Faber); Professor Molly M. Mahoood for The Poet as Botanist (Cambridge University Press)
2008: Dr Helen W Small, for The Long Life (Oxford University Press)
2007: Dr Susan Oliver for Scott, Byron and the Politics of Cultural Encounter (Palgrave)
2006: Dr Rosalind Ballaster for Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford University Press)
2005: Judith Farr with Louise Carter for The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (Harvard University Press); Dr Claire Preston for Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (Cambridge University Press)
2004: Dr Maud Ellmann for Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh University Press); Dr Anne Stott for Hannah More: The First Victorian (Oxford University Press)
2003: Mrs Claire Tomalin for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Penguin); Dr Jane Stabler for Byron, Poetics and History (Cambridge University Press)
2002: Professor Wendy Doniger for The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (University of Chicago Press); Professor K. Flint for The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press)
2001: Dr Annette Peach for Portraits of Byron (reprinted from the Walpole Society Volume LXII 2000); Dr Lucy Newlyn for Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (Oxford University Press 2000)
2000: Marina Warner for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto and Windus 1998; Vintage 1999); Joanne Wilkes for Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition (Ashgate 1999)
You can download a list of Rose Mary Crawshay prize winners before 2000 here.