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Dora Pym (1890-1980) was a lecturer

in Classics and Education at University of Bristol. She pioneered teaching ancient Greek through the reading of texts.

Life
was born at Harborough Parva near Rugby. She was the daughter of a timber merchant and farmer. She was married Thomas Pym.

Education
She was educated at home before attending King Edward VI High School, Birmingham. She won a Bodichon Scholarship to Girton College, University of Cambridge (1910-15), where she studied Classics.

Teaching
Her first post was as a lecturer in Classics at Westfield College. From here she became a Lecturer in Classics at Girton College in 1916-18. She moved to London and brought up her children returning to teaching in 1929 at Bristol University. She also taught for the Workers' Educational Association in the 1940s. From 1946 until her retirement ten years later she held a full time lectureship at the Department of Education at Bristol.

Books

 * Readings from the Literature of Ancient Rome (1923)


 * Readings from the Literature of Ancient Greece (1924)
 * Salve per Saecula (1936) -- anthology of extracts from Latin literature for use in schools.
 * Outlines for the Teaching of Greek Reading (1946)
 * Tom Pym, A Portrait (1952)
 * Alive on Men's Lips (1952)
 * Free Writing (1956)