Katherine R. Whitmore
Katherine R. Whitmore (* 1897 in Kansas ; † 1982 ) was an American Romance philologist and Hispanist .
life and work
Katherine Prue Reding studied Spanish at the University of Kansas and received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley . She taught in Richmond (Virginia) and from 1930 at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) . There she married her colleague Brewer Whitmore.
Her relationship with Pedro Salinas , whom she met in the summer of 1932 in Madrid, became famous in the academic year 1934–1935 there, whose volumes of poetry La voz a ti debida (1934), Razón de amor (1936) and Largo lamento (1939) came up they relate and whose love letters addressed to them were published in 2002.
Works
- The generation of 1898 in Spain as seen through its fictional hero , Northampton, Mass. 1936
- The handbook for intermediate Spanish , New York 1942; 2nd edition and T. The new Handbook for intermediate Spanish , New York 1955
literature
- Pedro Salinas , Cartas a Katherine Whitmore, 1932-1947 , ed. by Enric Bou, Barcelona 2002
- El gran amor secreto de Pedro Salinas, in: El País April 7, 2002
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whitmore, Katherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Whitmore, Katherine Prue Reding; Reding, Katherine Prue |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies and Hispanic Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1982 |