The Drunken Duchess of Vassar : Grace Harriet Macurdy, pioneering feminist classical scholar /

In this biography, Barbara McManus recovers the intriguing life story of Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946), Professor of Greek at Vassar College and the first woman classicist to focus her scholarship on the lives of ancient Greco-Roman women. Fondly known as "the Drunken Duchess," althoug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McManus, Barbara F., 1942- (Author)
Other Authors: Hallett, Judith P., 1944- (writer of foreword.), Stray, Christopher (writer of foreword.)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvx0776g