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Author McManus, Barbara F., 1942- author.

Title The Drunken Duchess of Vassar : Grace Harriet Macurdy, pioneering feminist classical scholar / Barbara McManus ; foreword by Judith P. Hallett and Christopher Stray
Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Drunken Duchess: a woman of contrasts -- Family and childhood -- From the Annex to Vassar -- Teacher and scholar -- Embattled -- Soldiering on -- Setting a course -- Unconventional families -- Fighting for justice -- Redefining the classical scholar as a woman -- Retirement: "Now begin the folio."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2017)
Subject Macurdy, Grace Harriet.
SUBJECT Macurdy, Grace Harriet
Macurdy, Grace Harriet fast
Subject Women classicists -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Women classicists
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Hallett, Judith P., 1944- writer of foreword.
Stray, Christopher, writer of foreword
ISBN 9780814274743
0814274749