Alice Grenfell
Alice Grenfell | |
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| Born | Alice Pyne 1842 |
| Died | 8 August 1917 Oxford, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | study of Scarabs from ancient Egypt |
| Children | Bernard Pyne Grenfell |
Alice Grenfell or Alice Pyne (1842 – 8 August 1917) was a British suffrage organiser and honorary secretary of the Women's Progressive Society. In later life she became an expert on ancient Egyptian scarabs.
Life[edit]
Grenfell married John Granville Grenfell. Their son, Bernard, was born in Birmingham but he was brought up and educated at Clifton College in Bristol, where John taught.[1]
Grenfell was active in the suffrage movement.[1] She was in America in 1888 attending the inaugural meeting of the International Council of Women in Washington with Susan B. Anthony.[2] She became the honorary secretary of the Women's Progressive Society.[3]
Grenfell served on a school board for three years.[1]
Grenfell went to live with her son after her husband died in 1897. Her son was a leading papyrologist working with Arthur Surridge Hunt. She took a great interest in her son's work and in particular Egyptian Scarab shaped artifacts.[1] She taught herself to read hieroglyphics and published her own papers including, The Iconography of Bes, and of Phoenician Bes-Hand Scarabs in 1902.[4] She created a catalogue of the Grenfell family's and the scarab collection belonging to Queen's College.[1] This collection had been left to the college by Robert Mason but it had been gathered by the Italian explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni.[5]
In 1908, he became professor of papyrology at Oxford, however he was ill and she cared for him for four years. During that time the professorship lapsed. He had recovered by 1913.[1] Grenfell died in Oxford in 1917.[citation needed]
Her son died on 18 May 1926, and was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.[6]
Works include[edit]
- The Iconography of Bes, and of Phoenician Bes-Hand Scarabs, 1902[4]
- The Grenfell Collection of Scarabs, 1916[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Bell, H. (2004-09-23). Grenfell, Bernard Pyne (1869–1926), papyrologist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 18 Jan. 2018, See link
- ^ International Council of Women (1888). Report of the International Council of Women: Assembled by the National ... Harvard University. R. H. Darby, printer.
- ^ Oliver Janz; Daniel Schönpflug (30 April 2014). Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders. Berghahn Books. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-1-78238-275-1.
- ^ a b Alice Grenfell (1902). The Iconography of Bes, and of Phoenician Bes-Hand Scarabs. Society of biblical archaeology.
- ^ Grenfell, Alice (1915). "The Scarab Collection of Queen's College, Oxford". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 2 (4): 217–228. doi:10.2307/3853475. JSTOR 3853475.
- ^ Bell H I, 'Bernard Pyne Grenfell'. Archived 26 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine In JRH Weaver (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography 1922 - 1930. Oxford University Press
- ^ Alice Grenfell (1916). The Grenfell Collection of Scarabs.
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