Having taught informally at the two women's colleges of the University of Cambridge, she was a lecturer and head of Italian Department at King's College, London from 1916 to 1921. By 1920, four new chairs in Italian were set up in England: the Serena Professorships of Italian. In June 1921, she was elected to the Serena Chair at the University of Birmingham. This made her the first woman to hold a chair at Birmingham and one of the first in Great Britain. However, there were allegations that favouritism won her the position, and the university refused to allow her to hire assistants to teach Italian from scratch while also insisting that the post was only part-time and paid her accordingly. She continued to teach at the university until she retired in 1946.[2][3]
Personal lifeedit
Memorial tablet by Simon Verity to Robert Douglas Richardson, husband of Linetta
In 1929, she married the Reverend Robert Douglas Richardson (1893–1989), an Anglican priest and academic,[4] later a canon of Birmingham Cathedral and principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford.[3] Her name is inscribed on a memorial to him in St Mary's Church, Boyton, Wiltshire, where he was rector from 1952 to 1967; the couple instigated restoration of the church in the 1960s.[5]
She died at her home in Corton, near Boyton church, on 4 June 1975.[3]
Selected worksedit
Barzini, Luigi (1907). Pekin to Paris: an account of Prince Borgheseʹs journey across two continents in a motor-car. Translated by de Castelvecchio, L. P. London: E. Grant Richards.
Referencesedit
^"Richardson, Linetta de Castelvecchio, (died 4 June 1975), Serena Professor of Italian at University of Birmingham, 1921–46". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^ abcMcNair, Philip (January 1977). "LINETTA DE CASTELVECCHIO RICHARDSON". Italian Studies. 32 (1). The Society for Italian Studies: 1–3. doi:10.1179/its.1977.32.1.1.
^"Richardson, Rev. Canon Robert Douglas, (26 Feb. 1893–30 March 1989)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^"The Blessed Mary, Boyton and Corton". The Upper Wylye Valley Team. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
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