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Prestigious prize for CECS student

Posted on 2 November 2012

Ruth Scobie wins Keats-Shelley prize

Congratulations to our CECS/English PhD student, Ruth Scobie, who has won a Keats-Shelley prize for 2012 for her essay Mary Shelley's Monstrous Explorers: James Cook, Jame King and a sledge in Kamchatka. 

The awards were announced by Colin Thubron, CBE, the Prize Chair, President of the Royal Society of Literature on 18th October 2012 in St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Three poets and two essayists were each awarded a share of the £3,000 prize money and a third essayist was highly commended. This year’s theme for the poems was GOLD and the essays were about any aspect of the work or lives of the Romantics and their circle.