Ola Elizabeth Winslow

Ola Elizabeth Winslow ( born January 5, 1885 in Grant City, Missouri, † September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta, Maine) was an American literary scholar, university teacher and biographer.

Life

Ola Elizabeth Winslow was the daughter of William D. Winslow (1844-1905) and Hattie Colby Winslow ( 1862-1952 ). She received her bachelor's degree in 1906 from Stanford University and then worked for several years as an English teacher at girls' schools before 1914 their Master, also at Stanford, made ​​. In 1922 she graduated with her ​​work for low comedy as structural element in English drama from the Beginnings to 1642 at the University of Chicago. During this time she was 1914-1944 English professor at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Subsequently, she was an English professor from 1944 to 1950 at Wellesley College, after which she retired.

During this time, published several books, including some historical biographer. About the American preacher Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards published it in 1940, from 1703 to 1758, making it the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography received a year later.

September 27, 1977 Winslow died at the age of 92 years. She was never married and had no children.

Work

• Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758 (1940 )
• Meeting House Hill, 1630-1783 (1952 )
• Master Roger Williams ( 1957)
• John Bunyan (1961 )
• Samuel Sewall of Boston (1964 )
• Portsmouth, the Life of a Town (1966 )
• Jonathan Edwards, Basic Writings (1966 )
• John Eliot: Apostle to the Indians (1968 )
• " And Plead for the Rights of All" Old South Church in Boston, 1669-1969 (1970 )
• A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston ( 1974)