She was a Guggenheim Fellow in the Humanities (1930) and a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1933).

[4] In 1930, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and finished her doctoral degree at the University of London.

[3] In 1932, Boswell married William Stuart Murrie, a Scottish civil servant.

[6] Boswell's book The Restoration Court and Stage, published in 1932, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1933.

[7] Boswell taught English part-time at the University of Edinburgh, where she also began to work towards a D.Litt.