Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Ola Elizabeth Winslow (born January 5, 1885 in Grant City , Missouri , † September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta , Maine ) was an American literary scholar , professor and biographer .
Life
Ola Elizabeth Winslow was the daughter of William D. Winslow (1844-1905) and Hattie Colby Winslow (1862-1952). She received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1906 and then worked for a few years as an English teacher at girls' schools before she did her master's degree in 1914 , also at Stanford. In 1922 she received her doctorate with her work Low Comedy as Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642 at the University of Chicago . During this time she was an English professor at Goucher College in Baltimore , Maryland from 1914 to 1944 . She was then an English professor from 1944 to 1950 at Wellesley College , after which she retired.
During this time she published several books, including some historical biographer. About the American preacher Jonathan Edwards she published in 1940 Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758 , with which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography a year later .
Winslow died on September 27, 1977 at the age of 92. She was never married and had no children.
plant
- Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758 (1940)
- Meetinghouse Hill, 1630–1783 (1952)
- Master Roger Williams (1957)
- John Bunyan (1961)
- Samuel Sewall of Boston (1964)
- Portsmouth, the Life of a Town (1966)
- Jonathan Edwards, Basic Writings (1966)
- John Eliot: Apostle to the Indians (1968)
- “And Plead for the Rights of All”: Old South Church in Boston, 1669–1969 (1970)
- A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston (1974)
literature
- Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage: Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners , Greenwood 1998, ISBN 978-1573561112 , 20.
- Carol Moriarty-Parman (Ed.): Streams of Poetry: Seined from 150 Years of Prose in Worth County Missouri , AuthorHouse 2009, ISBN 978-1434396853 , page 617.
Web links
- Winslow, Ola Elizabeth (1885? –1977) - Colonial Religious History in the Online Encyclopedia (English)
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow on Find A Grave
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow on bostonathenaeum.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winslow, Ola Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar, university professor, and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grant City , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1977 |
| Place of death | Damariscotta , Maine |