Eleanore Boswell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Germantown High School and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, and joined Bryn Mawr College in 1917 to study English and Greek.[1] She graduated magna cum laude in 1921.[2] The same year, she received a European Fellowship to study for a year at Bedford College, London. She returned to Bryn Mawr for her master's degree, which was awarded in 1923.[3]
In 1932, Boswell married William Stuart Murrie, a Scottish civil servant.[5] They lived in London for several years before moving to Edinburgh. They were keen supporters of the Edinburgh International Festival and were responsible for the inclusion of late medieval Scottish drama in the festival.[6]
Boswell's book The Restoration Court and Stage, published in 1932, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1933.[7]
Eleanore Boswell died on 4 August 1966 at Edinburgh.[9]
Selected works
Boswell, Eleanore (1932). The Restoration Court Stage, 1660–1702. Harvard University.
Day, Cyrus Lawrence; Boswell Murrie, Eleanore (1940). English song-books, 1651-1702: a bibliography with a first-line index of songs. Oxford University.