Agnes Jane Robertson
Historian of Anglo-Saxon England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agnes Jane Robertson M.A. PhD (1893-1959)[1] was a historian of Anglo-Saxon England. She was a student of Hector Munro Chadwick in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge,[2] matriculating in about 1918. She was a Pfeiffer Research Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies between 1932 and 1935.[3][4] She was later a reader in English language at the University of Aberdeen, which gives the Agnes Jane Robertson Memorial Lecture in her honour.[5]
Robertson edited and translated two volumes of Anglo-Saxon documents, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I, published in 1925,[6] and Anglo-Saxon Charters, in 1939, with a second edition in 1956. A facsimile reprint was published in 2009.[7]