N. Elizabeth Monroe
Nellie Elizabeth Monroe (20 April 1896 – 6 September 1959) was an American literary scholar and academic.
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Biography
She was born in Chanceford, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Mitchell Monroe and Mercy Catherine (née Norris). She received her A.B. from Oberlin College (1919), her A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania (1924), and her Ph.D. from the same university in 1929 under Felix Emanuel Schelling.[1] Monroe was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.
She taught in high schools in Pennsylvania and Vermont from 1919 to 1922, then she taught English literature and drama at Temple University. From 1929 until her retirement in 1956, she was an assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York.
Monroe was an assiduous collaborator of scholarly journals and the popular press. She published in periodicals such as Thought, Renascence, America and College English.
Nellie Elizabeth Monroe died of pneumonia in New York.
Works
- Nicholas Breton as a Pamphleteer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1929)
- The Novel and Society: A Critical Study of the Modern Novel (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941)
Notes
- ↑ "Nellie Elizabeth Monroe," University of Pennsylvania.
