Elizabeth Sewell (March 9, 1919 – January 12, 2001) was a British-American critic, poet, novelist, and professor who often wrote about the connections between science and literature.
[3] Of her books, the most widely held by libraries is The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History.
From then to the end of World War II, she worked for the Ministry of Education in London before returning to Cambridge for a Master of Arts (1945) and a Ph.D. (1949) in modern languages.
[3] In 1981, she won poetry, fiction, and nonfiction awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
[5] Sewell married Anthony C. Sirignano, a university lecturer in classics, in 1971.