Sybil Maud Goulding (fl. 1914–1931) was a British literary critic and academic. The daughter of a bank manager, she was a childhood friend of writer Winifred Holtby and wrote and performed plays with her.[1] After being educated at Bridlington High School, she entered Somerville College, Oxford, to study French in 1914.[2] She received a first class pass and was one of the first women to be admitted to degrees at Oxford when they were awarded in 1920.[3] She gained her MA in Paris.[4] She worked as a registry assistant at the League of Nations in 1919.[5]
Goulding specialised in the French reception of English literature: her most notable work was Swift en France (1924).[6] She was later a fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.[4]