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Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman (22 June 1897 - 21 February 1959) was a British classical scholar and author. She published a dozen studies in Greek history and literature, some thirty novels and...view moreKathleen Freeman (22 June 1897 - 21 February 1959) was a British classical scholar and author. She published a dozen studies in Greek history and literature, some thirty novels and detective stories (under pseudonyms), several children’s books, and many other volumes.
Born in Yardley, Birmingham, she attended the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff where she studied with Professor Gilbert Norwood. Following her graduation in 1918 with a BA degree, she remained there and was appointed Lecturer in Greek in 1919 and earned her MA (1922) and DLitt (1940).
During the Second World War, Freeman delivered lectures on Greece to the Ministry of Information and in the National Scheme of Education for HM Forces in South Wales and Monmouthshire. She further contributed to the war effort with her selections of translations from Greek authors which featured in The Western Mail, a Cardiff-based newspaper. These were later published as the book, It Has All Happened Before: What the Greeks Thought of their Nazis (1941). Her publications Voices of Freedom (1943), What They Said at the Time: A Survey of the Causes of the Second World War (1945) and her work with the Philosophical Society of England, where she acted as Supervisor of Studies from 1948 to 1952, are further testimony to her desire to make Greek ideas accessible through translation.
Freeman resigned from the university in 1946 in order to pursue her research and writing.
She died in Wales in 1959 aged 61.view less