Rachel Elfreda Fowler (10 December 1872 – 21/22 September 1951) was an English literary scholar and lecturer in art and history at the University of Oxford.
[2] She received her advanced education at Westfield College and then at the University of Oxford where she studied modern languages.
[3] Fowler completed her PhD at the University of Paris in 1905 on the subject of Une Source Française des Poèmes de Gower which discussed the sources for John Gower's poetry.
[4] She worked as a nurse in Paris for two years during the First World War and later lectured in art and history at the University of Oxford.
[5] Fowler died by suicide in 1951;[3] She was last seen on 21 September and her body was found the next day in Culham, Berkshire.