Janet Spens
# Janet Spens

Janet Spens (1876–1963) was a Scottish literary scholar specialising in Elizabethan literature. She was the assistant to Regius Professor Macneile Dixon in the Department of English Language and Literature (1908 to 1911) and "tutor to the women students in Arts" (1909 to 1911) at the University of Glasgow, before joining Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a fellow and tutor in English (1911 to 1936). In 1910, she became the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree by the University of Glasgow.

## Selected works

* Spens, J. (1909). Two Periods of Disillusion. Glasgow: J. MacLehose.
* Spens, Janet (1916). An Essay on Shakespeare's Relation to Tradition. Oxford: B.H. Blackwell.
* Spens, Janet (1922). Elizabethan Drama. London: Methuen.
* Spens, Janet (1934). Spenser's Faerie Queene: an Interpretation. London: Edward Arnold & Co.
* Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1938). Janet Spens (ed.). Terms & Vacations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
