Marina Warner

Marina Warner was recorded at birth as Marina Sarah Warner. The authorities additionally record the headings Marina Sarah Warner and Dame Marina Sarah Warner. Her recorded language was English.

She was the child of Charles Esmond Henry Pelham Warner and Emilia Terzulli. She married William Shawcross. One child is recorded: Conrad Shawcross.

Marina Warner worked in history and mythography.

She was employed by University of Essex, Birkbeck, University of London and University of St Andrews. Recorded position is Booker Prize judge. She belonged to British Academy, Academia Europaea and Royal Society of Literature.

Marina Warner received Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Martin Warnke Medal, Holberg International Memorial Prize, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, British Academy Medal and Fellow of the British Academy.

53 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1878 to 2021.

Indigo. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. The Leto Bundle. The Lost Father. Kalīlah and Dimnah. Bobby Baker. Queen Victoria's Sketchbook. Joan of Arc. Wonder Tales. Once upon a Time. Fly Away Home. From the Beast to the Blonde. Kiss and Part. Forms of Enchantment. Stranger Magic. Banana. Sirens. Murderers I Have Known Proof. No Go the Bogeyman. Signs and Wonders. Sanctuary. Managing Monsters. Leto Bundle. Man Ray. Retratos. Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds. Alone of All Her Sex. Murderers I Have Known. Monuments and Maidens. Figuring the Soul. Temporale. Indigo or Mapping the Waters. Secret Middle Ages. Helen Chadwick. Queen Victorias Sketchbook. The absent mother, or women against women in the "old wives tales". Blur of the otherworldly. AL and AL. Louise Bourgeois. Only make believe. Keep These Off the U.S.A., dated 1918, color lithograph on cream wove paper laid down on linen, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1931.159. Light and Shadow, dated c. 1924, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1924.953. Twilight, dated Modeled and cast 1878, bronze, dark brown patina, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1984.49. Barbados, dated 1933, watercolor over graphite on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1934.91. Sails and Nets, Honfleur (recto); Sketch of Boats and Buildings (verso), dated 1925, watercolor with touches of graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory wove card, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1926.428. Moroccan Man and Woman Standing, dated 1929, watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1977.77. Thames log / Chloe Dewe Mathews ; Marina Warner., dated [2021], held by Wellcome Collection. No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock / Marina Warner., dated 1999, held by Wellcome Collection. Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds : ways of telling the self / Marina Warner., dated 2002, held by Wellcome Collection. Gothic nightmares / Martin Myrone ; with essays by Christopher Frayling and Marina Warner., dated 2006, held by Wellcome Collection. Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century / Marina Warner., dated 2006, held by Wellcome Collection. From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers / Marina Warner., dated 1995, held by Wellcome Collection. Diary drawings : mental illness and me / Bobby Baker with Dora Whittuck ; introduction by Marina Warner ; photographs by Andrew Whittuck., dated 2010, held by Wellcome Collection. Helen Chadwick / edited by Mark Sladen ; with a preface by Marina Warner and essays by Mark Sladen, Mary Horlock and Eva Martischnig., dated [2004], held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 7 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 22 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Marina Warner, Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018. Bokrecension: Marina Warner – Once Upon a Time. A short history of fairy tale, Fafnir, 2015. Interviste, Narrativa, 2025. ‘HER-STORIES’ PER UNA CULTURA DI PACE: INDIGO, LA TEMPESTA AL FEMMINILE DI MARINA WARNER TRA PASSATO E FUTURO, Le Simplegadi, 2019. Playing the Zombie: Participation and Interpassivity in Gothic XR, Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2020. Revisiones históricas en femenino: Indigo, de Marina Warner, Asparkía, 2013. Terence Pepper et Marina Warner [et Man Ray], avec la collaboration de Bernard Steyaert (pour l’édition en français), Man Ray Portraits, Amerika, 2020. Marina Warner, Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir, European Journal of Life Writing, 2022. Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde. On Fairy Tales and their Tellers, Fééries, 2004.

10 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

podcast_what-lies-beyond_8-the-last-goddess-standing_1000370050723_itemimage — Internet Archive. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (2012) — Internet Archive. Dragon Empress (1972) — Internet Archive. Sculpture at Goodwood - British Contemporary Sculpture 2001/2002: British Contemporary Sculpture 2001/2002 (2001) — Internet Archive. The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 (1972) — Internet Archive. Queen Victoria's Sketchbook (1980) — Internet Archive. Alone of All Her Sex - Myth and Cult of Virgin Mary (Marina Warner) (2013) — Internet Archive. The Leto bundle (2002) — Internet Archive. The dragon Empress (1993) — Internet Archive. From the beast to the blonde (1995) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Marina Warner studied at Lady Margaret Hall and St Mary's School. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is history and mythography.

Employment is recorded with University of Essex, Birkbeck, University of London and University of St Andrews. Positions recorded include Booker Prize judge. Membership is recorded of British Academy, Academia Europaea and Royal Society of Literature.

Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Martin Warnke Medal, Holberg International Memorial Prize and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.