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K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

A British scholar of French whose work opened a window onto how French was taught and learned in England centuries ago. Her best-known book blends literary history, language study, and careful archival research in a way that still feels useful today.

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Kathleen Rebillon Lambley, also listed as Kathleen Annie Lila Lambley, was a British translator and scholar of Romance literature. A Wikisource author page identifies her as born in 1892 and describes her as a Romanticist who later used the name Kathleen Rebillon Lambley.

Her best-known work is The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times, published in 1920. The book itself names her as Kathleen Lambley, M.A., and says she was a lecturer in French at the University of Durham and had previously been an assistant lecturer in French at the University of Manchester.

That study remains her clearest legacy: a substantial history of how French was studied in England before the modern era. Reliable sources found here do not provide a clearly confirmed portrait photograph, so none is included.