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Martha Emily Foote Crow (1854 - January 1, 1924) was an educator and writer. Born in Sackets Harbor, New York,〔KM. “Martha Foote Crow Papers: an inventory of her papers at Syracuse University”. Syracuse University, May 1990. http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/crow_mf_prt.htm.〕 she played an important role in the development of higher education for women in the United States.〔Rossiter, Margaret W. “Doctorates for American Women, 1868-1907.” History of Education Quarterly 22, no. 2 (Summer): 159-183.〕 Martha Foote Crowe was born to Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote in 1854. In 1872, while studying at Syracuse University, she was one of the founding members of the sorority Alpha Phi.〔“Founders.” Alpha Phi Fraternity, n.d. http://www.alphaphi.org/aboutus/history.〕 She earned a Ph.B. in 1876 and Ph.M. in 1878, and finally her Ph.D. in English literature in 1886, all at Syracuse. In 1885, she married John M. Crow, an archaeologist.〔 John Crow joined the faculty of Iowa College (now Grinnell College) in 1884, and Martha Foote Crow became "Lady Principal" of the college (1884-1891) and preceptress (1884-1888) of the academy that operated under the college's auspices.〔Nollen, John Scholte. Grinnell College. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The State Historical Society Of Iowa, 1953. https://archive.org/details/grinnellcollege013454mbp.〕 While at Iowa College, she participated in the work of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae,〔“Association of Collegiate Alumnae Records, 1882-1917?”, n.d. http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss323.html.〕 coordinating an international survey of women's higher education.〔Крау, Марфа Фут. (Joseph Gottwald, trans.) Letter, December 8, 1890. Рукопись 2897 ар. КФУ НБ им Лобачевского ОРРК.〕〔Crow, Martha Foote. The status of foreign collegiate education of women. A partial abstract of the Report on Educational Progress presented by the Special Committee to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae on Oct. 24, 1891. Series II, no. 37; History of women, reel 945, no. 8751. (): Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1891.〕 She also served as the Association's President from 1893-1895. Upon her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1891, Martha Foote Crow left Grinnell to become assistant professor of English literature at the University of Chicago. In 1900, she became dean of women at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, she participated in the formation of an association of deans of women, organizing the 1903 Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West.〔“Minutes of the Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West”. Chicago, Evanston, November 3, 1903. NAWE Archives at the National Student Affairs Archives, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.〕〔Gerda, Janice J. “The 1903 Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West”, n.d. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jgerda/1903ConfDOW.html.〕 On January 1, 1924, Martha Foote Crow died in Chicago, Illinois.〔 In 1996, Alpha Phi published a biography of Martha Foote Crow.〔Kramer, Julia. The ever-widening life : the story of Martha Foote Crow. Evanston Ill. Alpha Phi International Fraternity Foundation, 1996.〕 ==Publications== * ''Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles'' (1896) * ''The World Above'' (1905) * ''Elizabeth Barrett Browning'' (1907) * ''Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Biography'' (1913) * ''The American Country Girl'' (1915) * ''Lafayette'' (1916) * ''Christ in the Poetry of Today'' (1917) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Foote Crow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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