Sybil Goulding
Sybil Maud West (née Goulding; 1897 – 21 April 1971[1]) was a British literary critic and academic. The daughter of a bank manager, she was a childhood friend of the writer Winifred Holtby and wrote and performed plays with her.[2] After being educated at Bridlington High School, she entered Somerville College, Oxford, to study French in 1914.[3] She received first class honours and was one of the first women to be admitted to degrees at Oxford when they were awarded in 1920.[4]
She gained her MA in Paris,[5] and worked as a registry assistant at the League of Nations in 1919.[6] By 1928, she had returned to Oxford, and was working at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she was serving on the College council as an official fellow.[7][5] In 1931, she married Rawden Henry Pitt West, an officer in the Royal Marines.[8]
As a literary critic, Goulding specialised in the French reception of English literature. She was the author of Swift en France, which was published by Champion in 1924 as volume 15 of Bibliothèque de la Revue de littérature comparée.[9]
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- ^ Goulding, Sybil (1924). Swift en France. Essai sur la fortune et l'influence de Swift en France au XVIIIe siècle, suivi d'un aperçu sur la fortune de Swift en France au cours du XIXe siècle. Bibliothèque de la Revue de littérature comparée. Vol. 15. Champion. Reviews:
- "Review of Swift en France". Nation and Athenaeum. 36: 66. October 11, 1924. ProQuest 2151958439.
- De Reul, Paul (1925). "Sybil Goulding. Swift en France". Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (in French). 4 (2): 489–490. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
- Pons, E. (1924). "Review of Swift en France". Revue anglo-américaine: 348–350. ProQuest 2151948828.
- Robertson, J. G. (January 1925). "Review of Taine et l'Angleterre, Les Sources françaises de Goldsmith, and Swift en France". The Modern Language Review. 20 (1): 92–95. doi:10.2307/3714021. JSTOR 3714021.
- Webster, C. M. (March 1932). "Omissions from Swift en France". Modern Language Notes. 47 (3): 152–153. doi:10.2307/2913612. JSTOR 2913612.