Born: 2 September 1885, United Kingdom
Died: 8 September 1963
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Evelyn Spearing
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
Literary critic Dr. Evelyn M. Simpson, the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University, was forced to resign from her academic position at her alma mater when she married in 1921, though she continued her own independent research. It was more than twenty years until the rule was changed in 1945.