Phebe Estelle Spalding

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Phebe Estelle Spalding
Phebe Estelle Spalding in academic regalia
Oil portrait of Spalding, standing in front of Carnegie Hall
Born(1859-03-13)March 13, 1859[1]
DiedMarch 12, 1937(1937-03-12) (aged 77)[1]
Pomona Cemetery and Mausoleum[2]
Alma materCarleton College
Boston University (Ph.D)[3]
OccupationProfessor of English
Parents
  • Benjamin P. Spalding[4] (father)
  • Ann Folsom[4] (mother)

Phebe Estelle Spalding (1859 – 1937) was an American writer and educator.

She was born in Westfield, Vermont,[4] the third of four children of Benjamin P. Spalding and Ann Folsom. She began teaching grammar school at the age of 16,[3] sometimes serving as principal for nearby schools. As a young adult, she moved to the Dakota Territory where she continued teaching.[5] In 1886 at the age of 27, she received a scholarship to study at Carleton College.[5] She graduated with a B.L. in 1889.[4]

Spalding joined the faculty of Pomona College in 1889, becoming the only woman teacher at the facility. She was hired as a teacher of English and modern languages,[6] but would also serve as the Dean of women at the college and as its librarian.[7] She established the first library in Claremont with a contribution of 200 books she brought with her from Carleton College,[8] which were added to the existing collection of 300 books.[7] This became the basis of the Pomona College library at Sumner Hall.[8] Spalding came to live in a house on West 5th Street that she named "Otherwhere".[9]

During 1898–99 she took a sabbatical to travel and study in Europe,

The British Museum[3] before returning to Pomona College, where she became Professor of English in 1904.[4] In 1908 she was awarded a Ph.D. from Boston University with a dissertation on the historical plays of Shakespeare.[3] In 1911, Pomona President Blaisdell established the Phebe Estelle Spalding Professorship of English Literature in her honor, making her the first to chair the position.[3] Spalding retired from teaching in 1927[7] but would continue writing for several years thereafter.[3]

Bibliography

During her career she authored 13 books and novellas, as well as articles published in professional journals and some poems. Her Patron Saints of California was published as a series of five books in 1934.[3]

  • A Tale of Indian Hill (1899)
  • Womanhood in Art (1906)
  • The Tahquitch maiden, a tale of the San Jacintos (1911)
  • Through Nature to Eternity, A Shakespearian Meditation (1933)
  • Patron Saints of California: Franciscan series (1934)

References

  1. ^ a b "Phebe Estelle Spalding", Family Search, retrieved 2020-10-26.
  2. ^ "Phebe Estelle Spalding", Find-a-Grave, retrieved 2020-10-26.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Wright, Judy (January 25, 2019), "COURIER Archives: Phebe outshone them all", Claremont Courier, archived from the original on 2020-10-29, retrieved 2020-10-25.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, Gerritsen collection of women's history, vol. 1, American Commonwealth Company, p. 768
  5. ^ a b Claremont's New Library (PDF), retrieved 2020-10-25.
  6. ^ Sumner, Charles Burt (1914), The Story of Pomona College, Pilgrim Press, p. 160.
  7. ^ a b c "1889", Pomona College Timeline, 15 September 2020, retrieved 2020-10-26.
  8. ^ a b Zellie, Carole; Berssen, Amy; Stanley, Sean (April 22, 2016), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (PDF), retrieved 2020-10-25.
  9. ^ Miss Spalding's house "Otherwhere", University of California, retrieved 2020-10-26.

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