Sophia Elizabeth Reed (''née'' Armstrong; May 16, 1842 – June 18, 1915) was an American oriental scholar and author whose books were widely used as college textbooks in various universities worldwide for Oriental studies. Hers were, at the time, the only works by a woman accepted by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.

Biography

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. Reed was the mother of author

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, and two sons, Earl Howell and Charles B. Reed. In 1893, Reed was chairman of the Woman's Congress of Philology at Chicago and in 1896 became an editor of the ''Course of Universal Literature''. Reed served two terms as the president of the

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1894 (January) until 1896 (June) and 1902 (June) until 1904 (June). She received honorary degrees from Northwestern and Illinois Wesleyan universities and Bethany College. Elizabeth Armstrong Reed died in Chicago on June 18, 1915.

Selected works

* ''The Bible Triumphant'' (1866) * ''Earnest Words for Honest Sceptics'' (1876) * ''Hindu Literature; or the Ancient Books of India'' (1891) * ''Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern'' (1893) * ''Primitive

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: Its Origins and Teachings'' (1896) * ''

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in Europe and America'' (1914)

References

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