Margaret Mann Phillips FRSL (1906–1987)[1] was a British academic who specialized in Renaissance literature and history.
Francis Arthur Mann, and was educated first at home and later at the now-closed York College for Girls.
In 1924, she won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford to study modern languages.
[3] She then undertook further study at the Sorbonne, University of Manchester, and Westfield College, London.
Phillips became a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University, in 1936 and lectured in French until 1945.