Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

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Dates:
Birth 1886-07-03
Death 1977-06-03
Gender:
Female
English,

Biographical notes:

Historian and civic worker (Ohio State University, Columbus, B.A., 1910) Schlesinger was chairman of the Committee on Education of the Cambridge (Mass.) League of Women Voters, on the board of the American Association of University Women of Boston, the Cambridge Public Library, and the Radcliffe Women's Archives (which became the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), and wrote articles and gave talks on women's history. She married historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger; they had two sons.

From the description of Papers, 1910-1977 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006833

Historian and civic worker, Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger was the wife of Harvard history professor, Arthur Meier Schlesinger. The Schlesinger Library was named in their honor.

From the description of Papers, 1966, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007240

From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, 1933-1963 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 543377913

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Subjects:

  • Education
  • Journalists
  • Libraries
  • Public schools
  • Social service
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women journalists

Occupations:

  • Historians

Places:

  • Massachusetts--Cambridge (as recorded)
  • Cambridge (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)