Julia Power (died June 22, 1960) was an American lecturer of English literature. A specialist in Shelley, she was a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1941).
She was born in Newcastle, Dixon County, Nebraska.[1][2] She attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she obtained her bachelor of arts degree in English, and a doctorate (1938) with a dissertation on the poet Shelley. Her thesis, Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1941.[3]
In 1929, Power travelled to England, attending lectures at Cambridge.[4]
Prior to her doctorate, Power had been a teacher at the Bancroft High School and other schools in Nebraska. She taught at St Teresa College in Kansas City, Missouri,[5] as well as Omaha University, Montana State College and the University of Minnesota.[2] She was superintendent of Johnstown, Nebraska schools in 1943.[6]
Power died June 22, 1960, age 72 in Lincoln, Nebraska.[1]
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