Marie and Robert Weatherall

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Marie and Robert Weatherall were a married couple who collaborated in translating the work of Karel Čapek into English.

Marie Weatherall, née Isakovicsová (1897 – 1972) was from Czechoslovakia.[1] Educated at Prague University,[2] Marie had obtained her doctorate and married Robert Weatherall by 1927, when she published an article on Walter Pater in a Czechoslovak philological journal.[3]

Robert Weatherall (1899 – 27 September 1973, Barham, Kent) was educated at Cambridge University before becoming a biology master at Rugby School.[4] Weatherall subsequently taught at Eton College. An active participant in the social hygiene movement, he was on the board of the for nearly four decades, and co-editor of their journal Biology and Human Affairs.[5] In 1944, as secretary of the Education Advisory Board of the Social Hygiene Council, Weatherall proposed the setting up of a national public service to collect, wash and return diapers within 24 hours.[6]

Translations[]

(incomplete list)

  • Jan Welzl, "The Quest for Polar Treasures" Translated by M & R weatherall, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1933
  • Karel Čapek, War with the Newts. Translated by M. & R. Weatherall, New York, G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1937
  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Karel Čapek, Masaryk on thought and life : conversations with Karel Čapek; translated from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall, London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1938
  • Karel Čapek, I had a dog and a cat, translated by M. & R. Weatherall, 1940
  • Karel Čapek, Three novels: Hordubal, An ordinary life, Meteor. Tr. by M. and R. Weatherall, 1948

References[]

  1. ^ Geoffrey Newsome, 'Translator's Note', in Karel Čapek, The Gardener's Year, trans. Geoffrey Newsome, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p.3. ISBN 978-0-8264-8625-7
  2. ^ Karel Čapek, Spisy, Vol. 22, pt. 2 (1981), p.468
  3. ^ Dr Marie Isakovicsová, 'Cesty estetického myšlení u Watera Patera' [Ways of aesthetic thinking in Walter Pater], Časopis pro moderní filologii, Vol. 14 (1927), p.257
  4. ^ Revolutionary botany: "Thalassiophyta" and other essays of A.H. Church, 1981, p.3
  5. ^ The Times, 1 October 1973, p.32
  6. ^ 'British Dishwashing Dean Dreams of Housework Free from Drudgery', Ottawa Citizen, 4 March 1944


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