Anne Hudson (literary historian)

Hudson was born on 28 August 1938. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, an all-girls state grammar school in Dartford, Kent. From 1957 to 1960, she studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; ==Academic career==

From 1961 to 1963 Hudson was a college lecturer in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 1963, she was elected a Fellow of LMH and appointed a Tutor in English. She also held positions in the Faculty of English Language and Literature of University of Oxford: she was a CUF lecturer from 1963 to 1981, a special lecturer from 1981 to 1983, held a British Academy Readership in the Humanities from 1983 to 1986, was a lecturer in Medieval English from 1986 to 1989, before being appointed Professor of Medieval English in 1989. In addition to her university posts she held a number of senior appointments at the Early English Text Society: she served as its executive secretary from 1969 to 1982 and as its director from 2006 to 2013, and she was a member of its council since 1982. ==Honours==

In 1976 Hudson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She has twice been awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy; in 1985 and in 1991. In 1988 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. A Festschrift was published in her honour in 2005: Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, edited by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison. ==Later life==

Hudson died on 8 December 2021, aged 83. ==Selected works==