Ellis-Fermor, Una Mary (1894–1958)
Ellis-Fermor, Una Mary (1894–1958)
British educator and literary critic. Name variations: U.M. Ellis-Fermor; Una Ellis-Fermor or Una Ellis Fermor; (pseudonym) Christopher Turnley. Born Una Ellis-Fermor, Dec 20, 1894, in London, England; died Mar 24, 1958, in London, England; dau. of Joseph Turnley Ellis-Fermor and Edith Mary Katherine Ellis-Fermor.
A major contributor to the study of the English Renaissance, spent most of academic career at Bedford College, University of London, as reader and then professor of English; also taught in US at Yale and Columbia universities; writings include Christopher Marlowe (1927), The Jacobean Drama (1936), The Irish Dramatic Movement (1939), Masters of Reality (1942), The Frontiers of Drama (1945), and Shakespeare the Dramatist and Other Papers (1961).