Edith Philips
(1892-1983)
American educator and writer
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Edith Philips (November 3, 1892 – July 19, 1983) was an American writer and academic of French literature. Her research focused on eighteenth-century French literature and French emigration to the United States. She was a Guggenheim Fellow (1928) and a professor of French at Goucher College and Swarthmore College. In 1932, she published The Good Quaker in French Legend. She served as the acting dean of women at Swarthmore and was later appointed the Susan W. Lippincott Professor of French in 1941. Philips was the founding chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Swarthmore, serving in this position from 1949 to 1960.
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3 November 1892 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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19 July 1983 (aged 90) Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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