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Tribute to Barbara Cross Great Professor and Mentor
Obituary tribute recalls Barbara Cross a Barnard College professor who inspired students with passion for literature. Born 1925 in Pittsfield Massachusetts she educated at Smith Yale Radcliffe and Barnard where she advanced from lecturer to associate professor. Her writings include works on Horace Bushnell Lyman Beecher and American literature with two projected volumes on William James and Charles Dickens.
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Barbara Myers Cross
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Smith College
Cross
Yale University
Radcliffe
Dana Hall
Bryn Mawr
Barnard
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English A
Lyman Beecher
Belknap Press
Harvard Press
Oman
Beecher
Margaret ‘Wittlér
Carey Thomas
Teachers
College Press
Arizona Quarterly
Horace Bushnell
Collier's Encyclopedia
Tlay
Texas Studies IN Literature and Language
Western Humanities Review
J. F. Nichols
NEW England Quarterly