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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...

Abels, Cyrilly, 1903-1975

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Cyrilly Abels (1903-1975), an intimate friend of Katherine Anne Porter, was a notable literary editor and agent. Her career began in 1924 after her graduation from Radcliffe College; she co-founded and was the first editor of a small publication called Creative Reading . As the managing editor of Mademoiselle magazine from 1945 to 1960, she played a major role in transforming the publication from a fashion magazine for young women to an important medium for young and t...

Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

Henry T. Volkening was a literary agent and co-founder of Russell and Volkening, Inc., a literary agency of New York City, N.Y. From the description of Henry T. Volkening papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1940. WorldCat record id: 676809982 ...

Davis, Hope Hale

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Writer, feminist, one-time Communist, and teacher, Frances Hope Hale Davis was born on November 2, 1903, in Iowa City, Iowa, the fifth and youngest child of Hal and Frances McFarland Hale. Davis studied art and worked for the Stuart Walker Repertory Company as a scenery painter. After a short-lived marriage to scenery designer George Patrick Wood, Davis moved to New York City. She worked in the advertising industry, eventually becoming a freelance writer, publishing stories in magaz...

Dunn, Esther Cloudman, 1891-....

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Born in 1891, Esther Cloudman Dunn was raised in Portland, Maine. Attending Cornell University, Dunn graduated in 1913, and became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in literature from the University of London. Prior to her tenure at Smith College, Dunn taught at Reading High School and Bryn Mawr College. Known for her research, Dunn explored Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, the Elizabethan Age, and romanticism. Dunn taught at Smith from 1922-1959, eventually becoming chairman of the college's E...

Ted Hughes

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Roberts, Ruby Altizer

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Virginia State Poet Laureate. From the description of Postcard to Beverley Fleet, 1944 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52610763 ...

Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963

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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965. From t...

Myron Lotz

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Davis, Robert Gorham.

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Professor of English at Columbia University. From the description of Papers, 1778-1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122575338 Robert Gorham Davis (1908-1998), was a literary critic and a professor of English at Columbia University. He became a member of the Communist Party, but after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, he grew disillusioned with Communism. In 1953, Mr. Davis testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, gi...

Rogers, Francis M. (Francis Millet)

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Mr. and Mrs. Rogers decided to give their son, Frances Rogers, the middle name of Millet to honor the artist Francis Davis Millet. The Rogers were friends with the artist's brother, Charles Sumner Millet. Francis Millet Rogers became a scholar of Portuguese language and history who was a member of the romance languages and literature faculty at Harvard University, where he later served as Dean. Between 1945 and 1955, he researched the life and works of the man for whom he was named. Professor Ro...

Fisher, Alfred Young

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Fisher was educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1927) and received his doctorate in 1931 from the University of Dijon. He taught English at the Valley Ranch Preparatory School, Valley, Wyoming, 1927-1929; University of Dijon, 1930-1931; Occidental College, 1934-1936; and Smith College, 1937-1967. He died 1970 in Princeton, N.J. From the description of Alfred Young Fisher papers, ca. 1930-1970. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 53452857 ...

Henry Rago

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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973

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Smith College, Professor, English, 1926-1955. University of Maine, A.B., 1909. University of Minnesota, M.A., 1918; Ph. D., 1922. From the description of Mary Ellen Chase papers, 1893-1995. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51183526 Maine-born American regional novelist, critic, and memoirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, [no year] Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863385 Mary Ell...

Campbell, Alan Keith

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Campbell earned his Harvard PhD in 1952. From the description of An analysis of the doctrine of Thomas Hobbes / Alan K. Campbell. Spring 1950. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512759 ...

Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963

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Nancy Lynch

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Horner, Joyce Mary, 1903-

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Poet and novelist, English teacher at Mount Holyoke College from 1944-1968. b. Joyce Mary Horner, d. 1980. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1880]-1987. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 26900640 Joyce Mary Horner was born on July 13, 1903, in Yorkshire, England. She received a B.A. in 1925 from St. Hilda's College, Oxford, a diploma in Education in 1926 and an M.A. in 1928 from Smith College. She worked at various schools and colleges before coming to Moun...

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