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Elisabeth Anthony Dexter Papers, 1837-1950Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteElisabeth Anthony Dexter (1887-1971) earned an A.B. from Bates College, A.M. from Columbia University, and in 1923, a PhD in history from Clark University. She also studied at Brown, Oxford, and Radcliffe. Her areas of interest included international relations, pre- Revolutionary American professional and business women, and British history. From 1923-27, she taught British and American history and was head of Skidmore College's history department. Dexter represented the Church Peace Union in New York City, London, then Geneva, in 1945-48. She travelled throughout Europe. With her husband, Robert C. Dexter, the director of Rhode Island's World Affairs Council, she provided aid to refugees in Lisbon, 1940-44. She was the European director for the Unitarian Service Committee. She was active in the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women. She wrote Colonial Women of Affairs (1924) and Career Women of America, 1776-1840 (1950). Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe Elisabeth Dexter Papers include notes and manuscripts from Colonial Women of Affairs and Career Women of America; an 1837 letter from English author Eliza Cook to the (London) Literary Gazette with notes by Dexter; and correspondence and proposals from the Austrian League for the United Nations. NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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