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Evans, Abbie Huston, 1881-1983

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Abbie Huston Evans was born in 1881. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA in 1913 and an MA in 1918. She received an honorary Litt. D. from Bowdoin College in 1961 and was the recipient of a number of poetry prizes over the years. She published several volumes of poetry. Evans died in 1983....

Whitman, Marina von Neumann, 1935-

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Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist, writer and former automobile executive. From 1979 until 1992 she was an officer of the General Motors Corporation. Prior to her appointment at GM, Whitman was a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Whitman received a B.A. in government from Radcliffe College (now Harvard University), graduating at the top of her class, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Columbia University. The...

Cronkhite, Bernice Brown, 1893-1983

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Bernice Brown Cronkhite was born in Calais, Maine in 1893 and after the death of her mother in 1896, was brought up with her older brother, by her father and aunt. She attended schools in Providence, Rhode Island and following graduation from high school taught school in Tiverton for one year. She attended Radcliffe, 1912-1916, because of its course offerings in government and law and received a "distant work" scholarship because she came from a city outside of Boston. While at Radcliffe for rea...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

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French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014

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Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa in 1923. At age 13 she began her writing career, her first writings appearing in the children's section of the Johannesburg Sunday Express. Since then she has written novels and countless short stories, articles, etc. which have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Many of her works reflect the political and social dilemmas of living under apartheid in South Africa and consequently, several of her books have been banned in that ...

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974

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Sexton was a poet and playwright. From the description of Poems, 1961-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78491220 Anne Sexton was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed American poets of the 20th century. Her complex, confessional verse treated such topics as mental illness, sexual liberation, and 1960s Americana with honesty and wit. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Anne Sexton committed suicide in 1974. From the description of Anne Sexton l...

Hardy, Harriet Louise, 1906-

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See finding aid for Harriet Louise Hardy Papers, MC 387. From the guide to the Papers, 1935-1994, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Physician and specialist in occupational medicine, Harriet Louise Hardy was born on September 23, 1906, in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her father, Horace Dexter Hardy, a lawyer, died of pneumonia when HLH was four. Her mother, Harriet Louise (Decker) Hardy, married engineer Charles Maxwell Sears in 1912. HLH grad...

Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...

Bok, Derek C. (Derek Curtis), 1930-

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Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved several times, ultimately to Los Angeles, where he spent much of his childhood. He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954), attended Sciences Po, and George Washington University (A.M., 1958). Bok taught law at Harva...

Tree, Marietta Peabody, 1917-1991

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Mary Endicott Tree, known as Marietta, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on April 12, 1917, the daughter of Malcolm and Mary (Parkman) Peabody. In 1925, her family moved to suburban Philadelphia, where her father served as rector of St. Paul's Church, and Tree went to Shady Hill Country Day School, followed by St. Timothy's, a boarding school in Maryland and a year at a finishing school in Italy. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania before marrying Desmond FitzGerald...

Jordan, W. K. (Wilbur Kitchener), 1902-1980

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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan (also known as W. K. Jordan), (1902-1980) was an American historian, specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain. Raised in Lynnville, Indiana, Jordan received a bachelor's degree from Oakland City College in 1923, before earning a master's (1926) and doctoral (1931) degree from Harvard University. Jordan went on to become a leading historian of sixteenth and seventeenth century England, accruing many honors, and producing books, including Men of Substanc...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941

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George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredg...

Smith, Margaret Earhart, 1902-1960

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Margaret Earhart was born in Evanston, Illinois, on February 3, 1902, the daughter of Harry Boyd and Carrie (Beal) Earhart. After graduation from Vassar College in 1923 ME was involved with a number of journalistic pursuits in Ann Arbor, including research for a book on Emily Bronte, which included travel abroad. Teaching and psychiatric counselling were also part of ME's early work experience. In February 1926 she married Dr. Clement Andrew Smith (b. 1901), a pediatrician. They ha...

Cabot, Frederick Pickering, 1868-1932

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Judge Frederick Pickering Cabot was the picture of perfect Boston Brahmin. Born in 1868, he was descended from one of New England’s wealthiest families. He would become president of the Harvard Union, President of the Boston Symphony, a regular at the Union Club, no doors were closed to him. But he was probably most remembered and most beloved by generations of poor Boston children for his tireless work advocating for them in his role as judge at the Juvenile Court in the early 1900s....

Kunin, Madeleine, 1933-

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Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is a Swiss-born American diplomat, author and politician. She served as the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state. Kunin was born in Zürich, Swi...

Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992

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Abigail Adams Eliot was born October 9, 1892, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Reverend Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) and Mary Jackson (May) Eliot (1859-1926). Her sister, Martha May Eliot (whose papers are in the Schlesinger Library, MC 229), was head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor between 1951 and 1956. Her brother, Frederick May Eliot, was head of the Unitarian Association of America starting in 1937 till his death in 1958. ...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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The Schlesinger Library had its origins in the gift of the Woman's Rights Collection (WRC) by Maud Wood Park '98 to Radcliffe College in 1943. Organized as the Women's Archives in 1948, it was renamed the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America in 1967 in recognition of the Schlesingers' strong support of the Library and the College. The WRC was originally housed in Longfellow Hall and the Women's Archives in Byerly Hall and moved in 1967 to the old Radcliffe...

Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-1991

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Cora Alice Du Bois, an anthropologist, was one of the first female tenured professors at Harvard. She was a prominent figure in the culture and personality movement within American anthropology, and her fieldwork was among the Wintu in California, the community of Atimelang on the island of Alor in Indonesia, and Bhubaneswar, India. Du Bois was born October 26, 1903 in Brooklyn, New York. Her family lived in St. Quentin, France and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Her father died when she was eightee...

Ware, Norma

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Stedman, Edith G. (Edith Gratia), 1888-1978

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Social worker, college administrator, and writer (Radcliffe B.A., 1910), Stedman was a canteen worker with the YMCA in France and Germany during WWI, a medical social worker at an Episcopal Mission in China (1920-1927), and head of the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe, a vocational training and placement program (1930-1954). In retirement she lived half of every year in England, where she founded the American Friends of Dorchester Abbey, which raised money for restoration of the abbey. ...

Copeland, Charles Townsend, 1860-1952

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Copeland (1860-1952) graduated from Harvard in 1882 and taught rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland, 1862-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973011 Educator, editor, and author. From the description of Charles Townsend Copeland papers, 1898-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449796 Copeland (A.B. 1882) became an assistant professor of English at Harvard University in 1...

Byerly, William Elwood, 1849-1935

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Byerly (1849-1935) taught mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Elwood Byerly, 1934-1936 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972769 ...

Dunn, Nancy

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Nancy Dunn worked for women's and human rights in Eugene, OR. She was a member of the City of Eugene Commission on the Rights of Women and the City of Eugene Human Rights President's Council. She also worked with the City of Eugene Human Rights Program. From the guide to the Nancy Dunn papers, 1986-1990, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

Doris Levi

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Press, Aida

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Smith, Clement A. (Clement Andrew), 1901-1988

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Clement Andrew Smith (1901-1998) was a pediatrician at Boston Lying-In Hospital, later known as Boston Hospital for Women and then Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Mass. Smith's research focused on newborn infants including fetal and neonatal physiology, perinatalogy, including maternal malnutrition; and the effect of humidity on water balance and respiration. Smith's research contributed to the founding of the specialty of neonatalogy in the 1960s. From the description of Pa...

Hilles, Susan Morse, 1905-2002

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Susan (Morse) Hilles, art collector and philanthropist, was born in Simsbury, Conn., on July 4, 1905, the daughter of Susan Ensign and Rev. William Inglis Morse. After study at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1924-1925) and the Sacker School of Design (1926-1929), she married Frederick Whiley Hilles, who became a professor of English at Yale University. They had two children. In the 1950s she began to collect the work of post-war, mostly American, artists, including Helen F...

Smith, Alice Kimball.

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Alice Kimball Smith, historian, educator, and college administrator was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1907. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College (1928) and Ph.D. from Yale University (1936). She was married to Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian of technology, in 1931 and they had two children Stuart and Anne. In 1942 the Smiths moved to Los Alamos where CSS worked on the development of the atomic bomb and AKS taught at Los Alamos High School ( 1943-1945). After their mov...

Lucy Patton

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Susan Ware

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Ladd-Franklin, Christine, 1847-1930

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Christine Franklin who lectured at Columbia University from 1914 to 1927, was well-known for her method of reducing all syllogisms to a single formula, and for her contributions to knowledge relating to color vision. She was married to Fabian Franklin (1853-1939). From the description of Christine Ladd Franklin and Fabian Franklin papers, ca. 1900-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482650 Christine Ladd (Vassar College Class of 1869) ...

Pineda, Marianna, 1925-

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Sculptor; Boston, Mass. Died 1996. Pineda studied art at Bennington College, Berkeley, Cranbrook Academy, Paris, and at Columbia University, where she met fellow student Harold Tovish, whom she married in the late 1940s. She was a fellow at the Radcliff Institute, 1962-1964. From the description of Marianna Pineda papers, 1943-1998 (bulk 1980-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81736029 Marianna Pineda (1925-1996) was a sculptor from B...

Pforzheimer, Carl H., Jr., 1907-1996

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Because the appropriation for the Westchester County Commission on Government did not include funds to study the libraries in the county, Carl H. Pforzheimer, the Commission's chair, sought and received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation to conduct such a study. Mr. Pforzheimer directed the study which proposed an umbrella organization, the Westchester County Library System (today, the Westchester Library Association). These are Mr. Pforzheimer's files. From the description of West...

Sudarkasa, Niara

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Anthropologist, educator, and president of Lincoln University; b. Gloria A. Marshall, 1938; married Delmer A. Sudarkasa. From the description of Niara Sudarkasa papers, 1980-1993 (bulk 1987-1993). (Lincoln University, Langston Hughes Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 83403940 ...

Cam, Helen M. (Helen Maud), 1885-1968

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Cam was a medieval historian, the first woman professor on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a professor at Cambridge University in England, where she was active in local politics. From the description of Papers, 1928-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006945 Cam was a medieval historian, the first woman professor on the Faculty of arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a professor at Cambridge University in England...

Howard, Mary

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Epithet: wife of Henry, 7th Duke of Norfolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000136 Epithet: wife of William, Viscount Stafford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000137 Epithet: 2nd wife of George, 4th Earl of Suffolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81...

Greenleaf, Mary Longfellow, 1816-1902

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Mary Greenleaf was a teacher in Lexington, Maine, and lived in North New Portland, Maine. She apparently also trained in Farmington, Maine, to be a milliner. From the description of Papers (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501400796 ...

Channing, Stockard

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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932

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Isabella Augusta Persse (1852-1932) married Sir William Henry Gregory (1817-1892). After her husband's death, Lady Gregory became an author and playwright. She also acted as manager of the Abbey Theatre from 1904-1912. From the description of Lady Gregory papers, 1879-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863298 Isabella Augusta Gregory, Lady Gregory (1852-1932), the Irish playwright and poet. For a fuller account of her life and achievements see the Dictionary of National...

Martin, Christopher

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Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945-....

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African American history professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was born in Washington, D.C. in 1945. Her father, Dr. Albert Neal Dow Brooks, was the secretary-treasurer for the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and editor of the organization'sNegro History Bulletin; her mother, Alma Elaine Campbell, a high school history teacher who later served as the supervisor for history in the Washington, D.C. public school system. Higginbotham received her B.A. degree in history fr...

Wilson, Linda S., 1936-

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Linda S. Wilson, seventh president of Radcliffe College was appointed in 1989 and inaugurated in 1990. From the description of Papers, 1990-1998 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008877 Linda (Smith) Wilson, president of Radcliffe College, daughter of Fred M. and Virginia (Thompson) Smith, received her A.B. from Newcomb College (1957) and Ph. D. (1962) from the University of Wisconsin. She married Paul Allaby Wilson and they have two chil...

Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Johnson, Sonia

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Sonia Ann Harris was born on 27 February 1936 in Malad City, Idaho, to Alvin and Ida Howell Harris. Her childhood was spent in Preston, Idaho, until the family moved to Logan, Utah, in 1948. She was raised a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormon Church). After graduation from Logan High School in 1954 Sonia worked in a bank until she entered Utah State University in January 1955. She received her B.A. in English in 1958. Sonia and Richard Theodore Johnson...

Lang, Ilene

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Lurie, Alison

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Alison Lurie was born in 1926 and is the author of Love and Friendship (1962), Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates, Real People (1969), Only Children (1979), Language of Clothes (1981), and other novels. She is a Professor of English at Cornell University. From the guide to the Alison Lurie papers, [ca. 1960-1977], (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Lurie (b. 1926) graduate from Radcliffe College (1947) and writes novels...

Lord, Deane

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Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934

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Briggs (Harvard, A.B., 1875) taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Overseer. From the description of Papers of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 1907-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972766 Educator. Harvard: A.B. 1875, A.M. 1882, LL.D. 1900. Assistant professor of English at Harvard, 1885-1890; professor of English, 1890; Dean of Harvard College, 1891-1902; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 190...

Hess, Lindy

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Zinberg, Dorothy S.

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Dorothy Shore Zinberg, research sociologist and lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, wrote her doctoral dissertation about student life at Radcliffe College. A native of Boston, Zinberg earned a B.A. in biology and chemistry from Boston University (1949), an M.A. in sociology from Boston University (1958), and a Ph. D. in sociology from Harvard University (1966). Zinberg served as acting dean of North House at Radcliffe College while Dean Catherine W...

Robison, Mary

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Epps, Archie C., 1937-2003

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Former Harvard dean Archie C. Epps, III, was born on May 19, 1937, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. After graduating from high school, Epps attended Talladega College in Alabama where he earned his A.B. degree in 1958. Epps next attended the Harvard Divinity School, where he earned his bachelor's degree in theology and his certificate in educational management in 1961.Epps began his professional career with Harvard the year he graduated, serving as a teaching assistant at the Center for Middle Easter...

Wald, George, 1906-1997

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George David Wald, 1906-1997, was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, and a promoter ofprogressive political and social causes. From the description of Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065767 Educator, biochemist. From the description of Reminiscences of George Wald : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741205 ...

De Voto, Avis MacVicar, 1904-1989

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DeVoto was an editor, specializing in cookbooks, for Alfred A. Knopf, 1956-1958. Prior to that, she had handled the correspondence of her husband, Bernard A. DeVoto (1897-1955) author, editor, historian, and literary critic. She was also House Secretary in Lowell House at Harvard and worked in the dean's office at Radcliffe. The DeVotos had two sons. From the description of Papers, 1952-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006572 De Voto was an edit...

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader, March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020), also known by her initials RBG, was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993, and had served since August 10, 1993. Ginsburg became the second of four female justices to be confirmed to the Court after Sandra Day O'Connor, the two others being Sonia Sotomayor and Elen...

Bixler, Julius Seelye, 1894-

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Smith College, Professor, Religion and Biblical Literature, 1924-1933. Amherst College, A.B., 1916; M.A., 1920. Yale University, Ph. D., 1924. Harvard University, Professor, Theology, 1933-1942. President, Colby College, 1942-1960. Died March 28, 1985. From the description of Julius Seelye Bixler papers, 1926-1969. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51246150 Smith College Assistant Professor of Religion and Biblical Literature, 1924-25 ...

Hamburg, David A., 1925-

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Psychiatrist, corporation president. From the description of Reminiscences of David A. Hamburg : oral history, 1996-1998. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269255329 David A. Hamburg, M.D., has a long history of leadership in biobehavioral research and education, and inquiry into multiple aspects of human conflict. Through his association with Stanford University, the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, the Carnegie Corporation ...

Bibring, Grete L. (Grete Lehner), 1899-1977

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Grete L. Bibring, (1899-1977), noted psychoanalyst, was one of the members of the "second generation" of Freudian Scholars, and played a leading role in the integration of psychiatry with general patient care. Bibring served as head of the psychiatry department at the Beth Israel Hospital, from 1946-1965 as the first woman head of a clinical department, and in 1961 was appointed Harvard Medical School's first woman full professor. From the description of Papers, 1929-1977. (Harvard U...

Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823

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English gothic novelist. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person : [n.p.], to Mr. [William Eusebius?] Andrews, 1822 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872138 ...

Fieser, Mary, 1909-1997

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Mary Peters Fieser, chemist, (Radcliffe A.M. 1931) received the Garvan medal from the American Chemical Society, 1971. From the description of Papers, 1982-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009155 Louis Frederick Fieser, 1899-1977, and Mary Peters Fieser, 1909-1997 were chemists at Harvard University. Louis was the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Mary was his co- researcher and co-published with Louis, but, except for her statu...

Eck, Diana

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Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994

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Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was an American psychoanalyst, educator, and author. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Danish parents who separated before his birth, but he grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany. He used his stepfather’s last name, Homburger, until the late 1930s. In 1930 he married Joan Mowat Serson, a Canadian dancer and artist. In 1933 they immigrated from Vienna to the United States. He was best known for his work in child development and life-span studies, coining the phrase "identity c...

Skinner, Alice Blackmer.

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A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1945), University of Minnesota (M.S.W. 1951), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1977), Alice Blackmer Skinner was married to Wickham Skinner, professor at the Harvard Business School. During the 1960s she was active in Radcliffe alumnae affairs, serving as co-chair with Barbara Voss, of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association's Study Committee on Merger, 1969-1971. From the description of Papers, 1961-1972 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCa...

Woodworth, G. Wallace

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Woodworth graduated from Harvard in 1924 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Wallace Woodworth, 193?-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973226 ...

Abramovitz, Max, 1908-2004

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d. 2004. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84366616 Architect. From the description of Papers, 1957-1982. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28411461 Prize winning student drawing for Columbia University's School of Architecture. Location of stadium is Riverside Park at the foot of 116th Street, same site as Palmer and Hornbostel proposed for the Univers...

Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935

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George Pierce Baker was an American drama educator. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and from 1888 to 1924 was a faculty member in the English Department. While at Harvard, he played a key role in starting the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University Library; he created the Harvard Dramatic Club; and he founded Workshop 47 to provide a forum for the performance of plays developed for his English 47 class. Baker was unable to convince Harvard to offer a degree in playwrighting...

Burr, Allston

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Burr graduated from Harvard in 1889 and served as Overseer and benefactor of Harvard. From the description of Papers of Allston Burr, 1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972996 Epithet: of Chestnut Hill USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000038 ...

Neustadt, Richard E.

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Political scientist. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Elliott Neustadt : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741331 Richard Elliot Neustadt (b. 1919), educator, political scientist, and government consultant, was a professor of government at Columbia University from 1954 to 1964) and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1965 to 1975. Neustadt is the author of Presidential ...

Johnston, Ruby Funchess

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Ruby Funchess Johnston was born October 23, 1916, in Lamar, South Carolina. She attended South Carolina State College in Orangeburg (A.B., 1953), Atlanta University (A.M., 1938) and Radcliffe College and Harvard University (A.M., 1948). She studied under W.E.B. DuBois at Atlanta University. She taught English and sociology at schools and colleges in South Carolina and Florida, and published two books about African American religion. From the description of Papers, 1953-1983 (inclusiv...

Gray, John Chipman, 1839-1915

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Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. His wife was Anna Lyman Mason. From the description of Correspondence, 1800-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81162043 Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) ) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)

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Bruner taught psychology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jerome Seymour Bruner, 1915-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972992 Psychologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jerome S. Bruner : oral history, 1999. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269256977 ...

Fay, Maria

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Thoma, Lucy

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Cott, Nancy

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Dunn, Mary Maples

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Mary Maples Dunn was Smith's president from 1985 to 1995, an economically troubled period for the college. But the imbalanced budget was just one of the challenging issues she faced during her tenure. Campus diversity, internal communication flow, and socially responsible investment were also significant issues during her presidency. However, Dunn maintained a cheerful image and a sense of humor throughout, and persevered through the trials of her difficult position. Dun...

Batts, Deborah, 1947-

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U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts was born on April 13, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1969 and attended Harvard Law School, where she earned her J.D. degree in 1972. Batts began her legal career clerking for Judge Lawrence W. Pierce, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. The next year, Batts became an associate in New York City at the corporate law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.In 19...

Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988

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Henry A. Murray (1893-1988) American psychologist and Harvard professor, was a pioneer in the development of personality theory. He was professor of Clinical Psychology at Harvard from 1927 until his retirement in 1962. He was also a central figure in the Department of Social Relations, which existed from 1946 to 1972, and a notable member of the Melville Society. From the description of Papers of Henry A. Murray, 1925-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76977...

Richardson, Elliot L., 1920-1999

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U.S. cabinet officer, politician, and lawyer, of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers of Elliot L. Richardson, 1780-1991 (bulk 1947-1991). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009619 From the description of Audio materials, 1961-1984 (bulk 1962 and 1974) [sound recording]. 1961-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 36045043 Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Elliot Lee Richardson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University ...

Ramsay, Ann

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Mack, Julian W. (Julian William), 1866-1943

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Lawyer, judge, and law professor at Northwestern University and University of Chicago. From the description of Papers, 1854-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947183 ...

Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912

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Goodwin graduated from Harvard in 1851 and taught Greek literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Watson Goodwin, 1853-1929 (inclusive), 1879-1911 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069361 Epithet: Professor of Greek at Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001d2 ...

Summers, Lawrence, 1954-

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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank (1991–93), senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton's administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001), and former director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former president of Harvard University (2001–2006), where he is currently (as of March, 2017) a professo...

Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella, 1852-

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Born Mary Isabella James in Burlington, N.J., later moved to Cambridge, Mass.; later studied painting and languages in Europe where she met her husband Silvio de Gozzaldi, a captain in the Austrian army; they moved to Switzerland and had three children; later moved to Cambridge, Mass., where they settled permanently; known as Mary Gozzaldi, she was very interested in American history and genealogy and was a founder and vice president of Cambridge Historical Society and an active member of the Ha...

Riley, Matilda White, 1911-....

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A sociologist specializing in aging, Matilda White Riley (Radcliffe College, A.B. 1931, M.A. 1937) has taught at Rutgers University (1951-1973) and Bowdoin College (1974-1978). Her work has set the agenda for sociological research on age and aging, beginning with Aging and Society, a multi-volume compilation of research beginning in 1968. As associate director (1979-1991) and senior research scientist (1991- ) at the National Institute on Aging, she ensured that researchers paid sufficient atten...

Mattfeld, Jacquelyn A.

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Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld served as President of Barnard College from 1976-1980. Previous to this office she held appointments at Brown, Sarah Lawrence and Radcliffe. Her field is Music. She holds degrees from Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., Goucher College and Yale University. From the description of Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld addresses, 1970-1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 56809893 Jacquelyn Mattfeld c...

Schlafly, Phyllis, 1924-2016

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Phyllis Schlafly was born 15 August 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. The mother of six, she is an attorney and a conservative political activist. Her biggest platforms have been against equal rights amendments and feminist views. She founded the Eagle Forum and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund in 1972 and remains in the office of their president today. From the guide to the Phyllis Schlafly reports, 1989-1991, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Radcliffe College. Archives

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From the 1930's, the College Library served as a repository for primary source material about Radcliffe College history, including records of early student organizations and alumnae books and pamphlets. In 1956 a records survey of College offices was conducted and the college archives office established. Records were moved to a storage vault in the basement of Agassiz House. No permanent staff was appointed until 1978. From the description of Records of the Radcliffe College Archives...

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...

Giele, Janet Zollinger.

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Janet Z. Giele is Professor Emerita at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, where she served as acting Dean, and at the Department of Sociology, Brandeis University. She held a number of positions at various organizations including Radcliffe College and Wellesley College before coming to Brandeis University. Much of her research has focused on the changing roles of women, family policy, aging, and life course. She is the author of numerous books including Women and the future and T...

Mongan, Agnes

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Agnes Mongan, art historian, curator and director at Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Oral history interview with Agnes Mongan, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039442 From the description of Agnes Mongan interviews, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397418 b. 1905, Somerville, Mass.; d. Sept. 15, 1996, Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum o...

Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-2003

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Ford earned his Harvard AM in 1948 and his PhD in 1950. From the description of Bolingbroke : Platonist or pamphleteer? / Franklin L. Ford. December 13, 1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512622 ...

Bernays, Hella Freud, 1893-1994

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Editor and niece of Sigmund Freud. From the description of Hella Freud Bernays papers, 1909-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984549 ...

Loeb, Arthur L. (Arthur Lee)

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Arthur Lee Loeb was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1923. He did undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University where he would later teach. Early work on the design of the core memory for the Whirlwind computer lead to a lifelong interest in spatial patterns and visual mathematics. He also worked as a research chemist for Kennecott Copper Co. and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2002. From the description of Papers of Arthur L. Lo...

Ride, Sally, 1951-2012

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Sally Ride (b. May 26, 1951, Los Angeles, CA–d. July 23, 2012, La Jolla, CA) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983; Ride was the third woman in space overall. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for Inter...

Beal, Thaddeus R., 1917-

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United States under secretary of the army, 1969-1971. From the description of Thaddeus R. Beal memoir, 1969-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870877 Biographical/Historical Note United States under secretary of the army, 1969-1971. From the guide to the Thaddeus R. Beal memoir, 1969-1971., (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Lach, John

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Longfellow, A. W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1854-1934

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Architect, of Portland, Me.; b. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.; son of A.W. Longfellow (1814-1901) and nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of A.W. Longfellow scrapbook, ca. 1890-1915. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 226720896 Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr., a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Anne Longfellow Pierce. After...

Ladd, Florence

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Florence Ladd was born June 16, 1932, in Washington, D.C., to parents who were educators. Ladd attended public schools in Washington, D.C., before earning a B.S. in psychology in 1953 from Howard University and a Ph.D. in social psychology in 1958 from the University of Rochester in New York.Ladd first taught at Simmons College. She then traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, where she taught until 1964. In 1965, she returned to Boston and began teaching at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educati...

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

Paget, Mary

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Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914

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Agnes Irwin was dean of Radcliffe College from 1894-1909. From the description of Letters, 1875, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007310 Agnes Irwin, school and college administrator, descendent of Benjamin Franklin, was born and educated in Washington, D.C. After teaching in New York, she became principal of the Penn Square Seminary, later the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia (1869-1894). Appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1894, she maintained excelle...

Olsen, Tillie

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Biography Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short by the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and full-time work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the...