Yvonne Noble
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| Born | February 6, 1935 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Yvonne Noble (born February 6, 1935) is an American literary scholar and editor. A 1970 Guggenheim Fellow, she edited two books on The Beggar's Opera, as well as a volume of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack annual issues. She was a professor at University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois and a co-founder of the Women's Studies Group 1558–1837.
Biography
Yvonne Noble was born on February 6, 1935, in Pittsburgh.[1] She obtained her BA from Colby College in 1956, before starting her graduate studies at Yale University.[1]
After obtaining her MA in 1957, Noble worked at the Yale University Library as an editorial assistant for The Papers of Benjamin Franklin from 1957 to 1958, as well as a research assistant at Library Company of Philadelphia (1959–1960).[1] She was the editor of a 1964 volume of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack annual issues, as well as a subsequent second edition published in 1965.[1] She eventually obtained her PhD in 1966.[1]
Noble originally worked at the University of Pennsylvania as an English instructor starting in 1962, before being promoted to assistant professor in 1966.[1] In 1967, she moved to the University of Illinois as assistant professor of English, and she was promoted to associate professor in 1970.[1]
Noble was editor of John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (1966).[1] In 1970,[2] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the imaginative influence of Paradise Lost upon certain major 18th century writers".[1] She also co-founded the Women's Studies Group 1558–1837.[3][4] She later edited another volume on The Beggar's Opera, Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar's Opera: A Collection of Critical Essays, which was published by Prentice Hall in 1975.[5] She was a member of the Modern Language Association.[6]
Originally a native of "a small town [...] four miles from Clairton, Pennsylvania", she later moved to England with her husband and two children.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1969. p. 207.
- ↑ "Yvonne Noble". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
- 1 2 Noble, Yvonne. "Who can start a women's studies group?" (PDF). Women's Studies Group 1558–1837. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-12-28. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
- ↑ "How to start a women's studies group". Women's Studies Group 1558–1837. 2019. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
- ↑ Michon, Jacques (1978). "Yvonne Noble, ed.: "Twentieth Century Interpretations of THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"". Études Anglaises. 31 (1): 88.
- ↑ "Professional Notes and Comment". PMLA. 85 (4): 886. 1970. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 1261374.
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Writers from Pittsburgh
- American academics of English literature
- 20th-century American women academics
- 20th-century American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American literary editors
- American women editors
- Colby College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty