Beatrice Mary Irene White (6 July 1902 – 30 March 1986) was a British literary scholar.

In 1919 she started her studies at King's College, London and four years later she graduated with a first class honours degree in English.

Three years after that she obtained her master's degree at King's with a thesis about the life and works of the English poet Alexander Barclay.

[1] She had spent nine years at King's, but she left when she was awarded a fellowship that enabled her to study in California.

She spent the war lecturing at Queen Mary College and at the end in 1944-46 was leading the English Department as the acting head.