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Katharine Margaret Wilson (29 March 1895 – 11 March 1981) was a Scottish writer and poet.

Early life
Wilson was born on 29March 1895, at Milton of Noth, in the parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, the eldest daughter of Hugh Wilson and Florence Eva, Blackett. Florence Eva was the fourth daughter of James Blackett, a former owner of the Doteloya tea and coffee plantation estate, near Gampola in Sri Lanka. They had married on 6June 1894 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen.

Wilson's father was a successful tenant farmer and breeder of polled shorthorns and pedigree Aberdeen Angus at his farm in Old Merdrum and Milton of Noth, Rhynie. He was a leading show exhibitor and chair of the Strathbogie farmer club. He was also a representative to the county council for the parishes of Rhynie, Gartly, and Drumblade, chair of the school board, and a member of the Rhynie literary society. However, he had been in poor health for some time, and he died on 21March 1902, aged 38, when Wilson was 6 years old. His funeral was held at Clatt church on 25March 1902, with interment taking place in the churchyard.

Shortly after her father's death, the farm's cattle, numbering around 95 in total, were dispersed in an auction held at Milton of Noth on 15September 1902. The farm, consisting of 1700 acre, was let later in the same year. In 1903, the family moved to 35 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, close to other members of the Blackett family.

Education
Wilson was first educated at Albyn School for Girls, Albyn Place, Aberdeen. On 9October 1909, in the Natural History Classroom at Marischal College, she was presented with a prize for her preliminary university examinations by Professor William Leslie Davidson. In the following year, the family moved to 4 Netherby Road, West Cults, and she went on to study at Aberdeen Grammar School. She took her university entrance examinations in 1912, passing in English, mathematics, and Latin. Later that year, she entered the University of Aberdeen to study English, graduating in 1914, and coming equal second in the essay prize.

Wilson moved to the MA course in English, passing her advanced and senior examinations in 1915. In her 1916 examinations, she was first in her class for English literature, second for English language, and was awarded university prizes for her results. She graduated on 6July 1917, joint first in English literature, gaining an MA in English with First Class Honours, and winning the Seafield Gold Medal and Minto Memorial Prize in English, and the Senatus Prize in English literature. Her prizewinning essay, "", written in the final year of her MA, was published in the Aberdeen University Review in 1918.

In 1921, Wilson was accepted into Clough Hall, Newnham College, Cambridge, as a research student studying English under the supervision of Arthur Quiller-Couch. After three years of research, the University of Cambridge Board of Research Studies awarded Wilson a PhD on 5June 1924, for her dissertation entitled "Music and English Poetry". She was the first woman to obtain a PhD from Cambridge, and from October 2019, her dissertation was featured in The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge exhibition at the Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University Library. Lucy Delap, exhibition cocurator and professor of history and director of studies at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, tweeted two photographs of Wilson's thesis from the exhibition.

Hockey career
In the 1920s, Wilson was one of Scotland's leading field hockey players. She first played hockey for Albyn School in 1912, as a forward in the school's First XI, along with her younger sister, Florence Eva.

Academic and literary career
Library Association https://archive.org/details/sim_new-library-world_1923-07_26_301/page/24/mode/2up?q=Hockey+%22K.+M.+Wilson%22

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=su9NAAAAMAAJ&q=%22k.+m.+wilson%22+%22avery+hill%22&dq=%22k.+m.+wilson%22+%22avery+hill%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4y5zq8fP7AhUEiFwKHdm2Bp4Q6AF6BAgHEAI

Hockey https://books.google.co.uk/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=1A-PXqEdeggC&dq=%22Katharine+M.+Wilson%22+%22Aberdeen+University%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=katharine+wilson

https://archive.org/details/IAPSOP-spr_proceedings_v49_1949-52/page/194 PROCEEDINGS of the Society for Psychical Research

Formerly head of the English department at Avery Hill Training College. Aberdeen University Review - Volume 49 - Page 223, 1982

The Aberdeen University Review - Volume 39 - Page 208, 1961 Senior Lecturer in English at Avery Hill Training College, London

Moved to Huddersfield in World War II."Meanwhile, the less salubrious Bourneville provided accom- modation for two staff, eight students (occupying two large rooms) and incorporated two designated 'sick rooms'"

The Forge: The History of Goldsmiths' College, 1905-1955 - Page 86 Miss Paston Brown co-operated with Dr Katharine M. Wilson in compiling an anthology of poetry



She also considers the value of a sense of humour from the standpoint of mental hygiene: "A sense of humour purges away bitterness by lifting our hurtful experiences to a plane where they delight our minds instead of harassing them; by it we can enjoy our discomforts, especially in retrospect ... We may escape from violent emotions as well as from violent experiences by thinking them funny". Furthermore, she remarks that "surely the gates of heaven stand wide for the makers jokes as well as for the singers of psalms".

The book was reviewed in the The Sunday Times by Dr J. M. Bulloch.



http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/w/page/19011344/John%20Estioko%20Research%20Report

https://archive.org/details/writersdirectory0000unse_o6j6/page/1348/mode/2up

Lyn Irvine book review by Wilson

The language in which it is told has a pleasant musical ring. As the adventures of CawTaw unfold the reader gains an intimate knowledge of the countryside around the rookery; from days of plenty when feeding in the wake of a plough, followed by famine when the countryside is frozen. Len Fullerton illustrates the book.



The Correlation of Poetry with Music.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pol100011962eng.pdf (Amnesty International organiser)

"The Nightingale and the Hawk: A Psychological Study of Keats" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3721576?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (negative) https://www.jstor.org/stable/449439?read-now=1&seq=12#page_scan_tab_contents https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=englishdiss https://archive.org/details/jungianliteraryc0000meur_1920/page/318/mode/2up?q=%22The+Nightingale+and+the+Hawk%22+wilson (positive review)

Later life and Death
Wilson died at her home, 3 Wythfield Avenue, Eltham, on 11March 1981, aged 85 years. She was cremated at Eltham Crematorium, Greenwich, on 19March 1981. Her younger brother, Hugh Norman Blackett, a former stockbroker, had died a month before her on 29January 1981, aged 84 years. On 2October 1981, their ashes were interred in their parent's grave at Clatt parish church. Her last poem,, was published posthumously, in the Spring 1982 edition of the Aberdeen University Review.

Radio broadcasts
Wilson was one of the first radio broadcasters on the local Aberdeen radio station 2BD that was operated by the British Broadcasting Company. She broadcast over six episodes, between December 1925 and March 1926, on the subject of The Debt of Poetry to Music. The episodes reflected the essays she had written for "Poetry's Debt to Music", the last section of her first book, , that was written to communicate her PhD thesis.