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Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
1864–1948
A pioneering scholar of religion and ethics, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and went on to write thoughtful books on faith, character, and everyday moral life.
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The Warriors
by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
About the author
Born in 1864, she studied at Wellesley College, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. there in 1892. Reliable library and university sources describe her as an author and educator, and her work is closely tied to theology, ethics, and religious thought.
She taught at Wellesley and published a number of books in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including What Is Worth While? Her writing often brought big spiritual and moral questions down to a human scale, which helps explain why her work still attracts readers interested in the history of religion, education, and women's intellectual life.
She later married the educator and reformer Samuel McCune Lindsay. Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay died in 1948, leaving behind a career remembered both for its scholarly firsts and for its calm, reflective approach to questions of belief and conduct.