Katherine Balderston
Professor Katherine Canby Balderston | |
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South Natick, Massachusetts | |
Awards | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1941) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | 18th-century |
Institutions | Wellesley College |
Notable works | The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1928) |
Katherine Canby Balderston (January 2, 1895,
Life
Katherine Canby Balderston was born in Boise, Idaho, one of four children. Her father, William Balderston, was an editor of the Boise Statesman, while her mother Stella would become the Idaho State Librarian.[1][2] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1916 with a bachelor's degree, Radcliffe College with a master's, and obtained her doctorate from Yale University.[3] She was a member of the Wellesley basketball team at the time of her graduation.[4]
Balderston researched
Balderston edited and published the Thraliana, the diaries of Hester Thrale. One of her contentions (challenged by later scholars) was that Thrale had some sort of sadomasochistic hold over Samuel Johnson.[7] This book won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1941.[8]
In 1942, she was made Martha Hale Shackford professor of English literature at Wellesley, which she held till retirement. She died in a nursing home in South Natick, Massachusetts in 1979.[3]
Selected works
- The History and Sources of Percy's Memoir of Goldsmith. Cambridge University. 1926.
- The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith. Cambridge University. 1928.
- Balderston, Katherine, ed. (1951). Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809. Clarendon.
References
- ^ "William Balderston dies suddenly at Boise". The Caldwell Tribune. May 8, 1914. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Former Idahoan dies in Delaware". Idaho State Journal. November 13, 1950. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Jackson Hole News. December 19, 1979. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Pinanski, Joan (May 23, 1940). "1902 Sport Events Place Field Day Among Wellesley Traditions" (PDF). Wellesley College News. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "More Books of the Week". The Spectator. October 20, 1928. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Bauer, Elisabeth B. (March 7, 1929). "Katherine Balderston Speaks on Goldsmith: Buck, Author, Man". The New Hampshire. p. 2. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Murray, J.R. (1991). Samuel Johnson: authority for an age (PDF) (Thesis). Durham University. pp. 23, 200. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize" (PDF). British Academy. Retrieved 3 April 2021.