Women's Writing Before Woolf: A Social Reference/Anne Lake Prescott 2

= Anne Lake Prescott = PhD. Author, Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English, and expert on literature written during the English Renaissance, and the periodical connection between England and France.

Works
French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation (Conari Press, 1978)

Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England (Yale University Press, 1998)

Mothers Through the Eyes of Women (Conari Press 2001)

Edited:

Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, edited with P. Cheney (MLA, 2000)

Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England, edited with B. Travitsky (Columbia, 2000)

Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney, edited with J. Dutcher (Delaware University Press, 2008)

Prescott participated in several academic memberships, including a trusteeship for the Renaissance society of America, and president to both the International Spenser Society and the 16th Century Society. Additionally, Prescott worked as the co-editor to two Ashgate series of editions of early modern texts by modern women and served on the editorial teams of the John Donne Journal, the Sidney Journal, SEL, Queries, and American Notes.

Currently, Prescott has dedicated her time to studying David in the Renaissance, and the Renaissance almanacs and calendars.

Reputation and Legacy
Dr. Prescott’s extensive research and work on Literature during the Renaissance period earned her the Colin Clout Lifetime Award from the Spencer Society in 2007, which symbolises the significant contributions of senior scholars. Later she received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and elected an honouree for the Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award.

Anne Prescott earned her esteemed reputation as a scholar through her perseverance and in-depth examination of the Renaissance period, Renaissance literature, and the relationship between England and France during this period. Her passion for her studies and students drove her research and created an exceptional quality of work. She is valued and loved by students, scholars and anyone who took interest in her chosen field.

Respected by her colleagues, Dr. Prescott developed a deep understanding of English Renaissance and used her studies to educate and instigate interest in the historical field in order to shape the minds of the young historians and English scholars in her classroom. In doing so, Prescott created a wealth of information regarding this time period and continues to do so to this day as she remains a teacher well into her late eighties. In light of her on-coming retirement, Prescott took part in a documentary on her life and work as an educator and professor, which covered her many contributions to English, French and Renaissance studies.

To this day, Prescott claims her time as the main speaker at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference to be the highlight of her career. Despite her nerves, Prescott delivered a strong speech and incurred praise for her career and insight into the field. She continues her work in 2022 as she works on a collection of established essays, in an office she shares with prized novelist, Mary Gordon, a former student of Prescott. However, Gordon is not the only esteemed former student in Prescott’s repertoire, as she stands alongside Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner.

On the 17th of February, 2022, Dr. Prescott received the 2022 Paul Oskar Kristeller Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), in recognition of her lifelong devotion to the highest standards of scholarship and exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies.

Among her many accomplishments, Prescott stands as a prized author and professor with a myriad of articles and awards to her name.

Works Cited | References
“Anne Prescott | Barnard College.” Barnard.edu, barnard.edu/profiles/anne-prescott. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.

‌ThriftBooks. “Anne Lake Prescott Books | List of Books by Author Anne Lake Prescott.” ThriftBooks, www.thriftbooks.com/a/anne-lake-prescott/224890/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.

“Anne Lake Prescott Documentary.” Www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOEGE9bhXcg. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.

‌“ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT.” Who’s Who of Professional Women, 18 Oct. 2019, www.whoswhoofprofessionalwomen.com/listee-features/anne-lake-prescott/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.

“Anne Lake Prescott.” Prabook.com, prabook.com/web/anne_lake.prescott/641745. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.