Dorothy Whitelock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDorothy Whitelock
English historian
Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1901
Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 14-Aug-1982
Profession: historian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Dorothy Whitelock
- Dorothy Whitelock, , CBE (11 November 1901 – 14 August 1982) was an English historian.
- From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge.
- Her best-known work is English Historical Documents, vol.
- I: c.
- 500-1042, which she edited.
- It is a compilation of translated sources, with introductions. Her other works include The Beginnings of English Society (1952), After Bede (1960), The Audience of Beowulf (1951), and Genuine Asser (1967), in which she argued against V.H.
- Galbraith's assertion that Asser's Life of King Alfred was a forgery by Leofric.
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