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Born January 21, 1941 (age 84) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study literature • women
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Willard, Emma
Emma Willard
American educator
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Edward Said
American professor and literary critic
M. Carey Thomas
M. Carey Thomas
American educator
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler
American educator and reformer
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills.
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
American missionary and educator
Emily James Smith (later Putnam) in her graduation picture from Bryn Mawr College, 1889.
Emily James Smith Putnam
American educator and historian
Lionel Trilling
American critic
Carolyn Heilbrun
American author and literary critic
Mary Emma Woolley
Mary Emma Woolley
American educator
Kenneth Burke
American critic
Irving Howe
American literary critic
William Lyon Phelps
American scholar
Carl Van Doren
American critic
W.C. Brownell
American critic
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic