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Elizabeth Kendall (historian)
Elizabeth Bemis Kendall (born April 7, 1947) is an American academic, television writer, and journalist. After working as a writer for the PBS show ''Great Performances'' and an editor for ''Ballet Review'', she published several books – particularly ''Where She Danced'' (1979), ''The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s'' (1992), and ''Balanchine and the Lost Muse'' (2013) – mostly focusing on dance history. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at The New School. Biography Elizabeth Bemis Kendall was born on April 7, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were Betty ( Conant) and falconer Henry Cochran Kendall. On April 3, 1969, she and her mother were injured when the station wagon she was driving crashed into an abutment on U.S. Route 61; her mother died from her injuries afterwards. She received her Bachelor of Arts (1969) at Radcliffe College and Master of Arts in Teaching in Language and Literature (1971) at the Harvard G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College. The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Anne (Radcliffe) Mowlson, Anne Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters (colleges), Seven Sisters colleges. For the first 70 years of its existence, Radcliffe conferred undergraduate and graduate degrees. Beginning in 1963, it awarded joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates. In 1977, Radcliffe signed a formal "non-merger merger" agreement with Harvard, and completed a full integration with Harvard in 1999. Within Harvard University, Radcliffe's former administrative campus, Radcliffe Yard, is home to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Former Radcliffe housing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle (Harvard), Radcliffe Quadrangle, including Pforzheimer H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
