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Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College.The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Anne Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
The tunnels in which the library is now located were previously the Underground Bookstore. [4] The tunnels were used for transporting books between the Old Bodleian and New Bodleian libraries (now Weston Library) and to the Radcliffe Camera. The books were transported via conveyor; a section of this system is preserved in the New Bodleian tunnel.
It became co-ed in 1949. In 2000, when Radcliffe was integrated into Harvard University, the program was moved to Pulitzer Hall at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. [4] The Columbia Publishing Course has also offered a four-week sister program in September at Exeter College in Oxford, England since 2016. [5]
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. According to Nancy F. Cott , the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, it is "the largest and most significant repository of documents covering women's lives and activities in the ...
Born in Boston on February 12, 1919, Barbara Leah Miller was the only child of Bessie (Pinsky) and Benjamin Allen Miller, Jewish immigrants from Russia. [1] She attended Girls' Latin School, [1] then Radcliffe College, where she graduated magna cum laude in American History and Literature in 1940. [2]
In October 1831, the house was purchased by Stephen Higginson, bursar of Harvard College. In 1870, a mansard roof was added to the structure. [2] Fay House was the first building owned by Radcliffe College. In 1890, the mansard roof was removed, and a third story was constructed to house the college library.
Leila Cook Barber, MA degree 1928, art historian and professor emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and medieval studies. [4]Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885, art historian