# Phyllis Hartnoll

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British poet, author and editor (1906–1997)

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**Phyllis Hartnoll** (22 September 1906, in [Egypt](/source/Egypt) – 8 January 1997, in [Lyme Regis](/source/Lyme_Regis)) was a British poet, author and editor.

Hartnoll was educated at [Cheltenham Ladies' College](/source/Cheltenham_Ladies'_College) and read English at [St Hugh's College, Oxford](/source/St_Hugh's_College%2C_Oxford),[1] winning the [Newdigate Prize](/source/Newdigate_Prize) for poetry in 1929,[2] and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers [Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers). 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.[1]

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 novel](/source/Gothic_fiction) *[Zastrozzi](/source/Zastrozzi)* by [Percy Bysshe Shelley](/source/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley) which was republished in a limited edition by the [Golden Cockerel Press](/source/Golden_Cockerel_Press) in 1955.

## Selected publications

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

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Reading_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Reading_1-1) Jack Reading ["Obituary: Phyllis Hartnoll"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-phyllis-hartnoll-1284982.html), *The Independent*, 25 January 1997

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Phyllis Hartnoll (Modern Languages, 1926)"](https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Phyllis-Hartnoll.pdf) (PDF). St Hugh's College. Retrieved 10 April 2025.

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