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Megan Dowd Lambert, 1996, children's book author; Tosca Lee, 1992, best-selling author of Demon: A Memoir and Havah: The Story of Eve; Madeleine L'Engle, 1941, Newbery Medal Honor-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1928, author of Gift from the Sea, pioneering aviator, spouse of Charles Lindbergh
The Smith College Relief Unit (SCRU) was a group of Smith College alumnae who aided in humanitarian relief work in France during and after the First World War.Funded by the Smith College Alumnae Association, the SCRU worked throughout the war serving under both the American Fund for French Wounded (AFFW) and later under the American Red Cross.
They had multiple children: Meiko (born 1914) and Atsuo (born 1916); [16] and they had two young sons when Smith alumna Stella Tuthill visited them in Kobe early in the 1920s. [17] The Fujitas moved to Port Arthur in Manchuria later in 1922. [18] She had a son and two daughters when she wrote to the Smith College alumnae from Hiroshima in 1930 ...
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
In early 2000, the book that Zadie Smith had begun writing at Cambridge University “as a way of managing anxiety about my exams” entered the world. It was called White Teeth.Its creation had ...
Helen Chadwick Thayer (née Rand; October 3, 1863 – April 14, 1935) was an American suffragist and social reformer.A pioneer in the settlement movement era, she was a co-founder and president of the College Settlements Association (CSA).
Poet Maggie Smith seems to have the idyllic life: a devoted husband, two kids, lots of friends and a big house in a leafy town in Ohio where her family has lived for generations. Smith says at the ...
For thirty years, she taught at Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts). Duckett published a number of books with University of Michigan Press, mainly on European history, religious history, and saints, and was a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review. Initially, Duckett was known for writing accessible historical books on the Middle ...