The prize, set up in 1888, is said by the British Academy to be the only
UK literary prize specifically for female scholars. Two prizes can be awarded in any year, each "to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets
Byron,
Shelley and
Keats". The prize was established by
Rose Mary Crawshay as the
Byron, Shelley, Keats in Memoriam Prize Fund. ==Winners==