Brown, Frieda S.

Frieda Starling Brown was born on March 13, 1929 in Waterbury, Connecticut. She received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (1957) and a Ph.D from Washington University, St Louis (1962).

Brown served in clerical positions at the Veterans Administration and the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. from 1946 to 1953. Brown was an assistant in French at Washington University from 1959 to 1961. In 1962 she became an instructor in French the University in Chicago, eventually becoming an Assistant Professor in French in 1964. She was a Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1966. In 1966 Brown received the Inland Steel Faculty Fellowship.

Brown was member of the Modern Language Association, the American Association of University Professors, and the Société des Amis de Montaigne. She is the author of Religious and Political Conservatism in the Essais of Montaigne (1963).

From the guide to the Brown, Frieda S. Papers, 1963-1964, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)