Dorothy Stuart joined The English Association in 1930 and was a member of the Executive Committee from 1937-61 and Honorary Secretary of the Association from 1949-51, and also edited the News-Letter from its inception in 1946 to 1961. She was known for her literary criticism and for several historical biographies, especially of women and children. Early in her career Stuart made studies of Horace Walpole and Christina Rossetti in The English Men of Letters Series. In 1959 she edited Essays and Studies and contributed to that work and to The Year’s Work in English Studies.
For her Sword Songs she earned the silver medal at the 1924 Art Competitions in Paris in the Literature category. The book was published in 1925 with illustrations by Gerald Spencer Pryse. The 37-page epic poem was originally written as a contribution for the magazine Punch. It consists of four parts dealing with different historical periods: in a Roman Amphitheater, in 15th century Scotland, in Renaissance France and at Dunkirk in 1785. Stuart was taught fencing by Alfred Hutton (1839-1910), founder of the British Amateur Fencing Association, to whom the Sword Songs are dedicated.
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