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Duckett, Eleanor Shipley

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Personal name headingDuckett, Eleanor Shipley
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Variant(s)Duckett, Eleanor Shipley, 1880-1976
Duckett, Elenor Shipley
LocatedNorthampton, Mass.
Birth date1880-11-07
Death date1976-11-23
Place of birthSomerset, England
Field of activityphilology history classical languages and literature
AffiliationGirton College Bryn Mawr Western College for Women Smith College
Profession or occupationprofessor historian philologist
Found inHer Studies in Ennius, 1915: t.p. (Eleanor Shipley Duckett; author's Ph. D. thesis, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1915)
Death and life in the tenth century, c1967: t.p. (Eleanor Duckett) p. viii (E.S.D.) back flap (prof. emer. of Latin lang. and lit., Smith Coll.; educ. at Univ. of London, Univ. of Cambridge and Bryn Mawr Coll.)
Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections, viewed via the WWW, August 30, 2011 (Eleanor Shipley Duckett was a noted philologist and historian; although she taught courses on classical languages and literature at Smith College for nearly thirty years, best known for her work on the history of Europe during the Early Middle Ages; born November 7, 1880, in Somerset, England; passed the Classical Tripos examination at Girton College; Ph. D. at Bryn Mawr; became an instructor at Western College for Women; became a Latin instructor at Smith College and remained in that position until her retirement in 1949; died on November 23, 1976.
Alfred the Great, [1969]: credits (Elenor Shipley Duckett; writer)
Associated languageeng