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Lona Mosk Packer
Born(1918-10-09)October 9, 1918
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
DiedApril 30, 1965(1965-04-30) (aged 46)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Literary scholar
  • editor
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1965)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ThesisBeauty for ashes: a biographical study of Christina Rossetti's poetry (1957)
Academic work
Sub-disciplineChristina Rossetti
Institutions

Lona Mosk Packer (October 9, 1918 – April 30, 1965) was an American literary scholar and editor. In 1964, she published a titular biography of English poet Christina Rossetti and The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters. A professor at the Lewis & Clark College and University of Utah, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965, the same year she died.

Biography

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Packer was born on October 9, 1918, in Denver, Colorado.[1] She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she obtained her BA in 1951, MA in 1953, and PhD in 1957;[1] her doctoral dissertation was Beauty for ashes: a biographical study of Christina Rossetti's poetry.[2]

She briefly worked at University of California, Santa Barbara as an English instructor from 1956 to 1957.[1] In 1957, she joined the Lewis & Clark College Department of English,[3] working there as an assistant professor of English until 1958.[1] After working as a visiting lecturer at University of Utah since 1960,[1] she was promoted to assistant professor in 1962.[4]

In 1964, Packer published her titular biography of English poet Christina Rossetti.[5] The same year, she also released The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters, an edited volume of letters associated with the poet, most of which had not been previously released in Packer's work.[5] In 1965,[6] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for an edition of the poetry of Christina Rossetti.[1] Ingrid Hotz-Davies [de] said that Packer is "probably the most dedicated of searchers after known and unknown lovers in Christina Rossetti".[7]

Packer died on April 30, 1965, in Los Angeles.[1] Her son was classical scholar James E. Packer, who dedicated his 1971 book The Insulae of Imperial Ostia to her.[8]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1965. p. 68.
  2. ^ Packer, Lona Mosk (1957). Beauty for ashes: a biographical study of Christina Rossetti's poetry (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 320141919.
  3. ^ "L&C Names Instructors". The Oregon Daily Journal. September 1, 1975. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "U. Regents Requist Olpin Not to Retire at Age 65". The Salt Lake Tribune. April 10, 1962. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c d Fredeman, William E. (1964). "Review of Christina Rossetti; The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters". Victorian Studies. 8 (1): 71–77. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 3825212.
  6. ^ "Lona Mosk Packer". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  7. ^ Hotz-Davies, Ingrid (2001). The Creation of Religious Identities by English Women Poets from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century: Soulscapes. p. 90.
  8. ^ Packer, James E. (1971). The Insulae of Imperial Ostia. p. xii.
  9. ^ a b Allott, Kenneth (1965). "Review of Christina Rossetti; The Rossetti-McMillan Letters". Victorian Poetry. 3 (1): 65–67. ISSN 0042-5206. JSTOR 40001293.
  10. ^ a b Hester, Erwin (1964). "New Light on Christina Rossetti". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 40 (2): 329–331. ISSN 0042-675X. JSTOR 26444882.
  11. ^ a b Rees, Joan (1965). "Review of Christina Rossetti; The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters". The Modern Language Review. 60 (3): 439–440. doi:10.2307/3720702. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3720702.
  12. ^ a b Waller, Ross D. (1965). "Review of Christina Rossetti; The Rossetti-MacMillan Letters, Lona Mosk Packer". The Review of English Studies. 16 (62): 217–218. ISSN 0034-6551. JSTOR 513124.
  13. ^ a b Willey, Basil (1965). "Review of Religious Currents in the 19th Century, Vilhelm Grønbech". The Modern Language Review. 60 (3): 438–439. doi:10.2307/3720701. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3720701.
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