Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Martha Carey |
Surname: | Thomas |
Profession: | College president, professor |
Birthday: | 01/02/1857 |
Place of birth: | Baltimore |
Date of death: | 12/02/1935 |
Place of death: | Philadelphia |
Education: | 1877 B.A. Cornell University; Johns Hopkins University; 1879 university studies (philology) in Leipzig; 1882 doctorate in Zurich |
Career: | 1884–94 dean and professor of English language at the newly established Bryn Mawr College, 1894–22 president; 1919–20 sabbatical and travels through France and Spain to recruit members for the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) |
Memberships: | Founding member, Naples Table Association for Promoting Scientific Research by Women; president, National College Equal Suffrage League; 1917–18 chair, Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA) War Service Committee; IFUW cofounder, member of the Crosby Hall fundraising committee |
Biographical literature: | Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, *The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas* (New York: Knopf, 1994); [*American National Biography Online*, "Martha Carey Thomas"](http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00852.html?a=1&n=Thomas&ia=-at&s=430&ib=-bib&d=10&ss=439&q=499) |
Major works: | *Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight* (Zurich: Füssli, 1883); *Education of Women* (Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1900) |