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| Description | Joy Morris, born Catterine Agatha Joyaut Morris, 30/04/1914 at Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa.
Carnegie Fellowship Scholar session 1937-38
Documents in file:
UCL IoE Application Form for Oversea Students, subject record card for Session 1937-1938.
Various correspondence.
Educated Bellvue High school for Girls & University of Cape Town 1931-1933 (B.A.), studying chiefly English & Latin. 1934 (M.A. in English & First year of study for B.Ed.).
Appointed Secretary of the Women's Advisory Committee, Member of the Women's Residence House Committee, Vice President of the University of Cape Town Debating Society & President of the Literary Society, 1934.
Taught Observatory Girls' High School, Cape Town, as part of practical work during 1935.
Appointed Junior Lecturer, Dept.of English, University of Cape Town, March 1935.
Elected Head Woman Student in the Women's Residence & Member of the Council of the National Union of South African students, 1935.
Taught English at the University 1935-37, specialising in Middle English.
Registered for Ph.D. degree, studying "The Language of that portion of the Peterborough Chronicle, covering the years 1121-1154, that is written in Early Middle English."
Awarded Carnegie Corporation Fellowship Scholorship to study at an English University, 1937.
Application letter cites wish to study "The Teaching of English in South African Universities and Modifications of Method Necessary in a Bilingual Country".
Applied University of London Institute of Education 26/09/37. Resided Bayswater, W2.
Returned to the Cape, South Africa, during 1938.
File Content Highlights:
A detailed handwritten report, dated 9/12/37, on key activities undertaken, places visited & books read as a Carnegie Fellow 1937-38.
A wedding invitation to her marriage to Marius Diemont in Somerset East on Sat 15/10/38.
A handwritten letter, dated, 6/2/46, sketching out Mrs Diemont's activities since her return to South Africa.
Mrs Diemont volunteered at St Dunstan's House in Cape town, before returning to teaching untill the end of 1944.
A further child in 1945 and wartime committments meant that, as of the letter's date, her Carnegie Fellowship report remained half-finished and un-submitted. |