to 1928 she held the Ottilie Hancock fellowship at Girton College. She accepted honorary degrees from the University of London (1920), Smith College (1949) and St. Dunstan's University (1969). The Pen & Brush Club, an organization devoted to the arts, celebrated her Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars as the most distinguished work of non-fiction of 1947. She also obtained an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa (1954), an honorary fellowship at Girton College (1958), and two Sophia Smith Fellowships for continuing research by Smith College emeriti (1963 and 1966). In 1964 she gave the Katharine Asher Engel Memorial Lecture at Smith, which was published the following year as Women and Their Letters in the Early Middle Ages. Select bibliography Gateway to the Middle Ages (1938) Alfred the Great and his England (London: Collins, 1957; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958) The Wandering Saints of the Early Middle Ages (London: Collins; New York: Norton, 1959) Death and Life in the Tenth Century (University of Michigan Press, 1967) References External links Eleanor Shipley Duckett papers at the Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections 1880 births 1976 deaths Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of London American philologists Women philologists American women historians British women historians Bryn Mawr College alumni English Anglicans English emigrants to the United States English philologists People from Bridgwater Smith College faculty Western College for Women faculty Writers from Massachusetts 20th-century American Episcopalians 20th-century philologists 20th-century American women