Jean Robertson

Jean Robertson (also known as Jean Bromley; 27 September 1913 – 23 August 1990 Birmingham) was a British scholar of English Renaissance literature. She won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1974. Life Jean Robertson was born in 1913 to Ainslie Robertson and Phyllis Mary Raeghton. She attended Howell's School, Denbigh and graduated from the University of Liverpool. She was an assistant lecturer at Liverpool between 1937–1942 in the English department. In 1939, she married J. S. Bromley, a naval historian (1913–1985). By 1942, she was working for the Board of Trade on war service. She was a research fellow at the Huntington Library in California, publishing articles, among others, on Nicholas Breton. Robertson taught English literature at Liverpool till 1949. She was in Oxford, where her husband was a Fellow of Keble College, from 1949–1960. In 1964, she became a lecturer at the University of Southampton, and Reader in 1972.