Wilmer Cave Wright
Wilmer Cave Wright | |
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Born | Emily Wilmer Cave France January 21, 1868 Birmingham, England, U.K. |
Died | November 16, 1951 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Language | English |
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Genre | non-fiction |
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J. Edmund Wright (m. 1906) |
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Emily Wilmer Cave Wright (née, France; January 21, 1868 – November 16, 1951) was a British-born American classical philologist, and a contributor to the culture and history of medicine.[1] She was a professor at Bryn Mawr College, where she taught Greek.[2] Wright's works include, The Emperor Julian’s relation to the new sophistic and neo-Platonism (1896), A Short History of Greek Literature, from Homer to Julian (1907), Julian (1913–23), Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists (1922), Against the Galilaeans (1923), Hieronymi Fracastorii de contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione libri III (1930), and De morbis artificum Bernardini Ramazini diatriba (1940). Giovanni Maria Lancisi: De aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum (1952), and Bernardino Ramazzini: De Morbis Typographorum (1989) were published postmortem.
Early life and education
Emily Wilmer Cave France was born in Birmingham, England. Her parents were William Haumer and F. E. Cave-Browne-Cave France.[3]
She studied from 1888 to 1892 at
Career
From 1897, she taught at Bryn Mawr College, first as Reader in Classics, from 1898 as Associate Professor of Greek, later as Full Professor of Greek. In 1933, she retired.
Wright specialized in late antique literature. Her studies on Julian's writings (4th century AD) presupposed great literacy in the ancient literature of previous centuries. Her literary history (1907), which ranged from the
On September 6, 1906, she married J. Edmund Wright. She died November 16, 1951, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.[3]
Selected works
- The Emperor Julian’s relation to the new sophistic and neo-Platonism (London, 1896)
- A Short History of Greek Literature, from Homer to Julian (New York, 1907)
- Julian ("Loeb Classical Library", 3 Bände, Cambridge/London, 1913–1923)
- Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists ("Loeb Classical Library", Cambridge/London, 1922)
- Against the Galilaeans (1923)[6]
- Hieronymi Fracastorii de contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione libri III (New York, 1930)
- De morbis artificum Bernardini Ramazini diatriba (Chicago, 1940)
Postmortem
- Giovanni Maria Lancisi: De aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum (New York, 1952)
- Bernardino Ramazzini: De Morbis Typographorum (Birmingham, 1989)
References
- PMID 19312610.
- ^ "Wilmer C. Wright". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ a b c American Philological Association 1994, p. 726.
- ^ G. W. T. (25 October 1894). "Do Women Study Science? An Interview with R. S. Heath". The Woman's Signal: 258–59.
- ^ Bryn Mawr College 1921, p. 9.
- ^ "Julian the Apostate, Against the Galileans (1923) pp.313-317. Introduction". www.tertullian.org. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bryn Mawr College (1921). Bryn Mawr College Calendar (Public domain ed.). Bryn Mawr College. p. 9.
Bibliography
- Greenwood, David Neal (2022). Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements. Cambridge Philological Society. ISBN 978-1-9137-0142-0.
- American Philological Association (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2.
External links
- Biography and photo at Bryn Mawr College