Colonial Women of Affairs

mnsss239 Elisabeth Anthony Dexter Papers, 1837-1950 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-04-07 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Elisabeth Anthony Dexter Papers, 1837-1950 Finding Aid MS 47 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony, b. 1887. Elisabeth Anthony Dexter Papers1837-1950 MS 47 1 box (.5 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Professor; Historian. Papers include notes and manuscripts for Colonial Women of Affairs and Career Women of America; an 1837 letter from English author Eliza Cook to the (London) Literary Gazette with notes by Dexter; and correspondence and proposals from the Austrian League for the United Nations. Biographical Note

Elisabeth Anthony Dexter (1887-1971) earned an A.B. from Bates College, A.M. from Columbia University, and in 1923, a PhD in history from Clark University. She also studied at Brown, Oxford, and Radcliffe. Her areas of interest included international relations, pre- Revolutionary American professional and business women, and British history. From 1923-27, she taught British and American history and was head of Skidmore College's history department. Dexter represented the Church Peace Union in New York City, London, then Geneva, in 1945-48. She travelled throughout Europe. With her husband, Robert C. Dexter, the director of Rhode Island's World Affairs Council, she provided aid to refugees in Lisbon, 1940-44. She was the European director for the Unitarian Service Committee. She was active in the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women. She wrote Colonial Women of Affairs (1924) and Career Women of America, 1776-1840 (1950).

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Elisabeth Dexter Papers include notes and manuscripts from Colonial Women of Affairs and Career Women of America; an 1837 letter from English author Eliza Cook to the (London) Literary Gazette with notes by Dexter; and correspondence and proposals from the Austrian League for the United Nations.

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