Rosemond Tuve: A Life of the Mind

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Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2004 - 325 pàgines
This is the biography of Rosemond Tuve, a remarkable woman scholar, who rose to honor and acclaim in the United States and abroad. Her story is told mainly in her own compelling voice through personal letters, diaries, and lectures. Tuve was an internationally recognized Renaissance scholar. She was the first visiting woman English professor to Harvard University in 1958, and to Princeton University in 1961. A reading of Rosemond Tuve is a reflection on education and rewards of the life of the mind.

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Chapter 1
1
Chapter 2
2
35
3
52
4
Chapter 5
87
Chapter 6
107
Chapter 7
137
Chapter 8
163
Chapter 10
206
Chapter 11
236
Chapter 12
262
Chapter 13
283
Chapter 14
309
Bibliography
314
End Notes
318
About the Author 325

Chapter 9
186

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Sobre l'autor (2004)

Margaret Evans was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, N. Y. After graduating from Connecticut College she attended Columbia University, receiving a Masters Degree in Renaissance Literature. At B. Altman & Co. she wrote advertising for New York newspapers and later served as acting editor of the Clinton Courier in Clinton, N. Y., contributing weekly columns. Her first published article, The Luminous Life of Rosemond Tuve, appeared in the Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Fall, 1980. She has worked as a professional horsewoman, teaching equitation and training hunters and jumpers. She is a recognized judge with the American Horse Shows Association. She has four grown children and lives in Hartland, Vermont.

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