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Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, 1928-2001 by Sarah Morris; Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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The fields of classics and archaeology lost a wonderful scholar and an extraordinary individual with the death of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule on 6 February 2001. Long active as a poet, classicist, and archaeologist, and gifted ,! as a unique teacher, writer, and lecturer, she retired from the Samuel F. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Chair at Harvard University in 1994. 9 \_ Emily was a New York City native and graduated in 1946 from the Brearley School, an institution whose early reports on her she recalled with amusement. "Emily is uneasy with people and has trouble speaking" was one prediction belied by a lifetime of brilliant public lectures and warm personal contacts. Her intellectual quality was clear from the beginning, as she achieved that rarity, a summa cum laude A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 (in Greek and Philosophy), followed by a Fulbright scholarship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1950-1951). Here began Emily's career in field archaeology, despite her claim that she wandered down to the Athenian Agora excavations out of "pure greed" (in quest of afternoon tea and biscuits). Her first scholarly article' arose from her discovery of
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- Author
- Sarah Morris; Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)