Grace Norton

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Grace Norton (* 1834 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ; † 1926 ) was an American Romance scholar and literary scholar, a specialist in Montaigne .

life and work

Grace Norton enjoyed a private education and self-taught to become an internationally recognized private scholar.

Grace Norton was the sister of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).

Works

  • Studies in Montaigne, New York 1904
  • The Early writings of Montaigne and other papers, New York 1904
  • (Ed.) Le Plutarque de Montaigne. Selections from Amyot's translation of Plutarch arranged to illustrate Montaigne's essays, Boston / New York 1906
  • Montaigne. His personal relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary relations to some later writers. A compilation, Boston 1908
  • (Ed.) The spirit of Montaigne. Some thoughts and expressions similar to those in his essays, Boston / New York 1908
  • (Associate) Pierre Villey , Lexique de la langue des Essais de Montaigne et index des noms propres, Bordeaux 1933, New York 1973 (Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne, edited by François Gebelin and Fortunat Strowski . Vol. 5)

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