Ruth Putnam (18 July 1856,

Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York (state), New York, after New York City and Buffalo, New York, Buffalo. The popul ...

– 12 February 1931,

Geneva, Switzerland Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

) was an author,

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

, and alumni trustee of

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

. One of eleven children of the publisher

George Palmer Putnam George Palmer Putnam (February 7, 1814 – December 20, 1872) was an American publisher and author. He founded the firm G. P. Putnam's Sons and '' Putnam's Magazine''. He was an advocate of international copyright reform, secretary for many yea ...

and his wife Victorine Haven Putnam, Ruth Putnam received her bachelor's degree in 1878 from

. (In 1873 Emma Sheffield Eastman was the first woman to graduate from Cornell University.) Ruth Putnam wrote a number of historical works and consulted original sources in Dutch, French, and German, as well as English. She also wrote a biography of her eldest sibling

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career pr ...

, who was a famous physician and suffragist.

Selected publications

* as collaborator with

Alfred John Church Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar. Church was born in London and was educated at King's College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Mercha ...

: (historical novel) * (translated into Dutch a
de Zwijger, Prins van Oranje''
(1900) by Dirk Christiaan Nijhoff) * *as editor with Eva Palmer Brownell, Maud Wilder Goodwin, and Alice Carrington Royce: *as translator with Oscar Albert Bierstadt: ; a translation and abridgment of the 8-volume ''Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche volk'' by

Petrus Johannes Blok Petrus Johannes Blok (10 January 1855, in Den Helder – 24 October 1929, in Leiden) was a Dutch historian. Biography Born in Den Helder, Blok studied at the Latin School of Alkmaar and read classics at Leiden University, receiving his doctora ...

* * * * *with the collaboration of Herbert Ingram Priestley: *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Putnam, Ruth 1856 births 1931 deaths Cornell University alumni 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers American women's rights activists American feminists American suffragists People from Yonkers, New York