Elizabeth Sewell

From then to the end of World War II, she worked for the Ministry of Education in London before returning to Cambridge for a Master of Arts (1945) and a Ph.D. (1949) in modern languages. She first visited the United States in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1973. She taught at Vassar College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fordham University, Tougaloo College, and Hunter College, and she was a visiting professor or writer at other universities. She held a Simon Fellowship at Manchester University (1955−57), a Howard Research Fellowship at Ohio State University (1949−50), an Ashley Fellowship at Trent University (1979), and a Presidential Scholarship at Mercer University (1982). In 1981, she won poetry, fiction, and nonfiction awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sewell married Anthony C. Sirignano, a university lecturer in classics, in 1971. She died in 2001 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

• Name — Elizabeth Sewell • Other Names — Margaret Elizabeth Sewell • Born — March 9, 1919 • Birthplace — Coonoor, India • Died — 12 January 2001 • Place of death — Greensboro, North Carolina • Education — Cambridge University, Ph.D. • Occupation — * Poet • novelist • critic • professor • Parents — Robert Beresford Seymour and Dorothy (Dean) Sewell • Spouse — Anthony C. Sirignano, 1971 • Organizations — *PEN International • American Association of University Professors • Lewis Carroll Society

• To Be a True Poem: Essays (1979)

• Poems, 1947−1961 (1962) • Signs and Cities (1968) • Acquist (1984)

• The Dividing of Time (1951) • The Singular Hope (1955) • Now Bless Thyself (1962) • The Unlooked-For (1995)

• An Idea (1983)

• For Love (1980) Sewell's papers, including manuscripts, correspondence, research, diaries, audio, and other material, are on file in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.