Rosemary Harriott

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Rosemary Harriott

We regret to report the death of Rosemary Harriott.  She graduated in Classics from Royal Holloway College, University of London.   In 1970 she was appointed Warden of Wessex Hall at Reading, a post which carried with it, under a scheme operating at the time, a lectureship in an appropriate  department, and she consequently became a lecturer in the Classics Department.  

She was a successful and much liked Warden, and she taught Latin and Greek language and literature in the department.   Her research interests were mainly in Greek literature, on which she published two monographs, Poetry and Criticism before Plato (1969), and Aristophanes, Poet and Dramatist (1985), both of which were reissued in the Routledge Revivals series in 2013.

Rosemary took early retirement in 1984 and spent the rest of her life in Wiltshire, latterly in a Care Home.   She died on 1st January 2015.       

Fred Robertson and  Jane Gardner