![]() ![]() To start with, her principal work appears to have been on the one-volume Supplement to the first edition of the Dictionary, which eventually appeared in 1933, five years after the final fascicle of the Dictionary itself. She was taken on in 1924, fresh from graduating in English at the University of Leeds (where she was almost certainly taught by Tolkien, who was a member of the English faculty there until 1925). The first woman named on an Oxford dictionary’s title pageįirst to arrive – in fact the first new recruit to the Dictionary’s staff since J. OED editors of the 1920s: Jessie Coulson and James WyllieĪmong the people who started work on the OED in the 1920s were two who went on to have careers of some significance for Oxford lexicography in very different ways: Jessie Senior (later Coulson) (1903–87) and James Wyllie (1907–71). ![]()
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