Elizabeth Wallace papers. 1870-1961, [ca. 1999].

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Elizabeth Wallace papers. 1870-1961, [ca. 1999].

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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, journals, manuscripts, lecture notes, and published works of Wallace, the first woman to become a full professor (of French literature) at the University of Chicago (1923). Her fields of study included Latin American literature, history, and institutions, as well as French and Spanish literature.

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