{{Short description|British poet, author and editor (1906–1997)}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} '''Phyllis Hartnoll''' (22 September 1906, in [[Egypt]] – 8 January 1997, in [[Lyme Regis]]) was a British poet, author and editor.

Hartnoll was educated at [[Cheltenham Ladies' College]] and read English at [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]],<ref name="Reading">Jack Reading [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-phyllis-hartnoll-1284982.html "Obituary: Phyllis Hartnoll"], ''The Independent'', 25 January 1997</ref> winning the [[Newdigate Prize]] for poetry in 1929,<ref>{{cite web |title=Phyllis Hartnoll (Modern Languages, 1926) |url=https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Phyllis-Hartnoll.pdf |publisher=St Hugh's College |access-date=10 April 2025}}</ref> and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]. As a theatre historian, she was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research in 1948; the other founders contributed to her ''Oxford Companion to the Theatre'', the first edition of which appeared in 1951.<ref name="Reading"/>

A collection of her poems, ''The maid's song and other poems'', was published by Macmillan in 1938. She wrote the introduction to the [[Gothic fiction|Gothic novel]] ''[[Zastrozzi]]'' by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] which was republished in a limited edition by the [[Golden Cockerel Press]] in 1955.

==Selected publications== *''Oxford Companion to the Theatre'' (1951: Oxford UP; 2nd ed, 1957; 3rd ed 1967)

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