Elsie Elizabeth Duncan-Jones (née Phare; 2 July 1908 – 7 April 2003) was a British literary scholar, translator, and playwright, and authority on the poet Andrew Marvell.
She received a scholarship to attend Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied with literary scholar I.A.
While there, she wrote a play, Fidelia's Ghost, and published her first book of literary criticism, on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
[7] In 1975 she gave the annual Warton Lecture on English Poetry at the British Academy.
[2] In 1937 Duncan-Jones's "heroic and workmanlike"[9] translation of Molière's The Misanthrope was produced in London, starring Lydia Lopokova and Francis James.