Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Ph.D. |
Prename: | Helen |
Surname: | Taft Manning |
Name of birth: | Taft |
Profession: | Dean, professor |
Birthday: | 08/01/1891 |
Place of birth: | Cincinnati |
Date of death: | 02/21/1987 |
Place of death: | Philadelphia |
Married since: | 15.07.1920 |
Married to: | Frederick Johnson Manning |
Profession husband: | history professor |
Children: | 2 (born 1921 and 1925) |
Education: | 1915 B.A. Bryn Mawr College; 1917 M.A. Yale University; 1924 Ph.D. Yale |
Career: | 1917–19 and 1925–41 dean of Bryn Mawr College and until 1957 professor of history; 1919–20 and 1929–30 acting president, Bryn Mawr |
Memberships: | American Association of University Women (AAUW); National Association of Deans of Women |
Biographical literature: | Obituary, *New York Times*, February 23, 1987 |
Major works: | *British Colonial Government After the American Revolution, 1782–1820* (1933, reprinted Hamden, CN: Archon, 1966); *The Revolt of French Canada, 1800–1835. A Chapter in the History of the British Commonwealth* (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962) |