Julia Power

Julia Power (died June 22, 1960) was an American lecturer of English literature. A specialist in Shelley, she was a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1941).

She was born in Newcastle, Dixon County, Nebraska.{{cite news|newspaper=Lyons Mirror-Sun|date=July 31, 1941|title=Julia Power Wins English Award|accessdate=2 April 2021|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/711210523/?terms=%22julia%20power%22%20nebraska&match=1}} She attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she obtained her bachelor of arts degree in English, and a doctorate (1938) with a dissertation on the poet Shelley. Her thesis, Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1941.{{cite news|title=Dr Power gets British academy literary award|date=July 29, 1941|newspaper=Evening State Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/309298076/?terms=%22julia%20power%22&match=1|accessdate=2 April 2021}}

In 1929, Power travelled to England, attending lectures at Cambridge.{{cite news|newspaper=Lincoln State Journal|title=Business & Professional Women's Club|date=September 1, 1929|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/314157807/?terms=%22julia%20power%22&match=1|accessdate=2 April 2021}}

Prior to her doctorate, Power had been a teacher at the Bancroft High School and other schools in Nebraska. She taught at St Teresa College in Kansas City, Missouri,{{cite news|newspaper=Lincoln Journal|date=September 30, 1944|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/313172270/?terms=%22julia%20power%22%20nebraska&match=1|title=About people - in town and out|accessdate=2 April 2021}} as well as Omaha University, Montana State College and the University of Minnesota. She was superintendent of Johnstown, Nebraska schools in 1943.{{cite news|newspaper=Brown County Democrat|date=December 24, 1943|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/670986740/?terms=%22julia%20power%22&match=1|title=Johnstown|accessdate=2 April 2021}}

Power died June 22, 1960, age 72 in Lincoln, Nebraska.{{cite news|newspaper=Lincoln Evening Journal|date=June 23, 1960|title=Deaths and funerals|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/312804433/?terms=%22julia%20power%22%20nebraska&match=1|accessdate=2 April 2021}}