Myra Reynolds (March 18, 1853August 20, 1936) was an American literary scholar. Myra Reynolds was born on March 18, 1853, in Troupsburg, New York. She attended a normal school in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, from 1867 to 1870, after which she may have taught at the primary or secondary level. She entered

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

in 1876 and graduated with an AB in 1880. She then taught at

Wells College Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, a village in the Finger Lakes region of the state. From its founding in 1868 until it became coeducational in 2005, Wells was a women's college. The college maintained acad ...

as head of the English department from 1880 to 1882 as well as at the Free Academy in

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; and at Vassar. In 1895, Reynolds received a

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in English at the

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, where she was eventually appointed full professor in 1911. Early in her career, she specialized in the poetry of

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. As of 1897, as an assistant professor, she taught a popular course called "Masterpieces in English Literature". As a literary scholar, Reynolds wrote on

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and edited selections from the work of

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...

, and

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...

. She retired in 1923, moving to near

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. Reynolds died on August 20, 1936, in

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