Top Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Butler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British critic Marilyn Butler.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Marilyn Butler

Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler, FRSA, FRSL, FBA was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004. She was the first female head of a formerly all male Oxford or Cambridge college. She won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1973.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. — © Marilyn Butler
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
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