Barbara Reynolds

Barbara Reynolds
Born	13 June 1914 Bristol, England
Died	29 April 2015 (aged 100) Cambridge, England
Occupation	Scholar
Spouse(s)	Lewis Thorpe (m.1939-1977, his death) 2 children Kenneth Imeson (m.1982-1994, his death)

Eva Mary "Barbara" Reynolds (13 June 1914 – 29 April 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator, wife of the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe. She wrote and edited several books concerning Dorothy Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L Sayers Society. She turned 100 in June 2014.

The daughter of Alfred Charles Reynolds, and the god-daughter of writer Dorothy L. Sayers, Reynolds was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and University College, London.

Reynolds was an assistant lecturer in Italian at the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1940. During the Second World War, she was an assistant lecturer (1940–1945) at the University of Cambridge, then University Lecturer in Italian Literature and Language from 1945 to 1962. She was Warden of Willoughby Hall, University of Nottingham, from 1963 to 1969 and Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham from 1966 to 1978. Alongside her teaching work, she was chief executive and General Editor of the Cambridge Italian Dictionary from 1948 to 1981 and managing editor of Seven, an Anglo-American literary review, from 1980 to 2004.

Reynolds held the title of Honorary Reader in Italian at the University of Warwick from 1975 to 1980 and was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, 1974–75, Wheaton College, Illinois, 1977–78, and 1982, Trinity College, Dublin, 1980 and 1981, and Hope College, Michigan, 1982. She was chairman of the Dorothy L Sayers Society from 1986 to 1994 and president from 1995. Its officers in recent years have regularly programmed events for 13 June, the common birthday of Sayers and Reynolds. She died on 29 April 2015.

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