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"I would like to thank the Lynne
Grundy Memorial Fund for granting me funds towards the costs
of attending the Leeds Congress 2003. Thank you also for the
wonderful copies of Lynne Grundy's Books and Grace and her
Memorial Volume. I shall treasure them as a mark of your invaluable
support, and as a precious reminder of Lynne Grundy's work
" Award winner 2003
Dear Friend,
Happy New Year from the trustees! We had another excellent
year with the Trust and made five equal awards to applicants
all with excellent projects all equally appropriate to the
aims of the Trust in Lynne's field. The awards were to:
Pirkko Koppinen from Royal Holloway towards presenting her
paper on Judith at the Leeds Medieval Congress in July 2003
Rachel Becker towards her international rate fees for her
DPhil on AngloSaxon verse in Auden and 20th C poetry
Janina Maleczek towards her PhD at York on the symbolism of
birds in AngloSaxon art
Abigayle Smyth towards her Cambridge DPhil on Aelfric
and Dr. Adam Mearns to develop his Newcastle PhD on AngloSaxon
monsters and devils for publication.
These applicants once again proved impossible to choose between,
so we gave them all awards. We feel very privileged to be
able to support such exciting work in Lynne's field.
The Trust is now well established and into
our sixth year of awards. The
calibre of past award winners ensures that the Trust is gaining
a reputation for supporting really important work, and recipients
are now recognised as having a special contribution to make
in Lynne's field. I think you'll agree that this is entirely
appropriate. We are so grateful for all your continuing support
of the Trust, and kind encouragement of us trustees! Next
year I'll be sending you a rather shortened version of the
newsletter, as we had very few replies to our last year's
letter. It made me feel rather like the early days of Channel
4 News, when they had so few viewers it would have been much
cheaper to phone them up individually. So to keep the Trust's
costs down I hope you won't mind if I send you a copy of the
letter we mail out annually to the academic community inviting
applications, which contains details of the Trust's latest
awards, and a shortened newsletter to keep in touch about
the Trust's progress. You can always get details about the
awards from our web page at Manchester University's AngloSaxon
Studies website, updated and maintained by 2001 award winner
Dr. Jo Proud. The address is:
I will continue to send you our thanks
for your support and interest, and all good wishes from the
trustees. It's so great that the Trust is working so well
and able to help so many people just when they need it. I
think that's a really appropriate memorial for Lynne.
With all good wishes,
and the trustees
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