The Mary Morrison Prize for French Literature
This is an annual prize in memory of the late Mary Morrison, who taught in the Department of French at Bristol from 1946 to 1977 and was an inspiration to generations of students. The prize was generously endowed by Mrs Helen McCabe and by Cornwall Enterprise.
The prize will be awarded for the best coursework essay or dissertation on a literary topic submitted by a final-year student of French. The decision to award the prize will be made by the Board of Examiners. If no candidate is deemed worthy of the prize in a given year, it will be held over until the following year.
The prize will be £100 annually until funds run out.
2011 winner
Danielle Northcott is awarded the Mary Morrison prize 2011 for her essay comparing the First World War novel 'Le Feu' and pacifist film 'La grande illusion'
2010 winner
The Mary Morrison prize 2010 has been awarded to Scott Yearsley for his essay on sexuality in Hugo's 'Notre Dame de Paris'.
2009 winners
Joint winners of the 2009 prize were Amy King, for a dissertation on 'Death and the carnavalesque in Villon's Testament', and Alice Grigg, for an essay on the question: 'To what extent can it be claimed that the novel of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is in crisis? Discuss with reference to Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet and Gide's Les Caves du Vatican'.
Commendations were awarded to Rye Holmboe for his essay on Rabelais; to Amelie Treppass for her essay on Racine; to Hamish Cameron for his essay on Flaubert; and to John Ashmore for his essay on Beur literature.
2008 winner
The winner of the 2008 prize was Hannah Klein, for an essay written on Apollinaire (Discuss the view that Apollinaire's poetry of the 1912-1914 period is 'typically modernist' in its ambiguous and shifting relationship both to aesthetic innovation and to social modernity).
Commendations were awarded to the following students:
Elizabeth Hookham (Excess and juxtaposition: the illustration of “Aureau Mediocritas” in Le Quart Livre”)
Richard Robson (Dissertation: A comparative discussion of the question of style in the novel, with reference to Balzac’s Illusions perdues and Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir)
Sarah Stevns (Discuss the view that Apollinaire's poetry of the 1912-1914 period is 'typically modernist' in its ambiguous and shifting relationship both to aesthetic innovation and to social modernity)
2007 winner
The winner of the inaugural prize in 2007 was Kate Hedges, for a final-year dissertation on Guillaume Apollinaire.