Ola Elizabeth Winslow (January 5, 1885 in Grant City, Missouri – September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta, Maine)[1] was an American historian, biographer, and educator. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century American theologian whose basic writings she edited for Signet Classics.
Ola Elizabeth Winslow | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 5, 1885 |
| Died | September 27, 1977 (aged 92) |
Born in Grant City, Missouri, Winslow was an instructor at College of the Pacific from 1909 to 1914, when she earned a master's degree from Stanford University. She was professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore (1914–1944) and at Wellesley College (1944–1977, emeritus after 1950).[2]
Winslow earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1922 with a thesis that was later published as a book with the title Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642.[3]
Winslow died in Maine at age 92.
Books
edit- Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642 (Menasha, WI, 1926) – "originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 1922"[3]
- Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography (Macmillan, 1940) – 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography[4]
- Meetinghouse Hill, 1630–1783 (Macmillan, 1952) – about the Dorchester church and settlement, now in Boston
- Master Roger Williams: a biography (Macmillan, 1957)
- John Bunyan (Macmillan, 1961) – biography of John Bunyan
- Samuel Sewall of Boston (Macmillan, 1964)
- Portsmouth: the life of a town (Macmillan, 1966)
- John Eliot, apostle to the Indians (Houghton Mifflin, 1968)
- "And plead for the rights of all": Old South Church in Boston, 1669–1969 (Boston: Nimrod, 1970)
- A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston (Houghton Mifflin, 1974)
- As editor
- Harper's Literary Museum (Harper & Bros, 1927), compiled by Winslow – Subject: American literature—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775 – first of a series designed by George Boas, not continued – reissued as Harper's literary museum, a compendium of instructive, entertaining, and amusing matter, selected from early American writings (Arno, 1972)[5]
- American Broadside Verse from Imprints of the 17th & 18th Centuries (Yale University Press, 1930), selected and edited with an introduction by Winslow[6]
- Jonathan Edwards: basic writings, selected and edited with a foreword by Winslow (New American Library, Signet Classics, 1966)
- The Pilgrim's Progress: with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (Grolier, The World's Great Classics, 1968), Grolier Edition of the 1820 classic by John Bunyan
References
edit- ^ Gale, Robert L. 'Winslow, Ola Elizabeth (1885-1977)', author and educator, American National Biography, 1999.
- ^ Armstrong, Rodney (1978). "Ola Elizabeth Winslow". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 90: 120–121. JSTOR 25080834.
- ^ a b "Low comedy as a structural element in English drama {...}" (1973 reprint). Library of Congress Catalog Record (LCC). Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ books.google.com
- ^ "Harper's Literary Museum {...}" (1972 edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ "American Broadside Verse {...}" (1974 edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
External links
edit- Ola Elizabeth Winslow at Library of Congress, with 20 library catalog records
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow at Find a Grave
