Willard, Charity Cannon

Charity Cannon Willard was born in Eureka, Illinois, on August 9, 1914. She moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her father was a college French teacher, in 1927. Willard attended Hiram College (A.B. 1934), Smith College (M.A. 1936), and Radcliffe College (Ph. D. 1940), earning degrees in French and Romance languages. She later studied at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study (1962-1966), and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (1967-1968). Willard became an internationally recognized authority on French literary figure Christine de Pizan. She was the author of Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works (1984), and produced many translations and critical editions of de Pizan's work. She was married to Sumner Willard, a colonel at West Point Military Academy. Charity Cannon Willard died on June 5, 2005.

From the description of Diary of Charity Cannon Willard, 1928. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 430656456

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