author
Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
1871–1932
A classicist, travel writer, and newspaper columnist, she brought wide learning and an easy, observant style to books about the ancient world and modern life. Her work moves comfortably between scholarship, storytelling, and everyday wit.
2 Audiobooks
Roads from Rome
by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
Greek Lands and Letters
by Francis Greenleaf Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
About the author
Born in Hancock Point, Maine, in 1871, Anne Crosby Emery Allinson studied at Bryn Mawr College, then continued her education in Europe before earning a Ph.D. in 1896. She taught Latin at Bryn Mawr and later became the second dean—and first woman dean—of the Women’s College at Brown University.
Alongside her academic career, she wrote books including Roads from Rome, Greek Lands and Letters, and Children of the Way. She was also known in Providence for her long-running newspaper column, The Distaff, which was collected in book form after her death.
Allinson died in 1932. Remembered both as a scholar and as a graceful popular writer, she stands out for making classical subjects feel lively, human, and close at hand.