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Article: Dame Eleanor Hull: the translator at work.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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The fifteenth-century translator Dame Eleanor Hull was until recently virtually unknown. In 1987 I gave a paper on her at the first University of Cardiff conference on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages; (1) in 1995 the Early English Text Society published my edition of her translation of a French commentary on the Penitential Psalms, (2) and she will have her own entry in the New Dictionary of National Biography. (3) This is an outline of what we know about her at present. Eleanor Hull was born the only child of Sir John Malet of Enmore in Somerset, probably during the last decade of the fourteenth century as her father was dead by 1395. Malet was a ...
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