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Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
1871–1932
A classicist, educator, and essayist, she moved easily between scholarship and literary writing. Her work reflects a love of Greece and Rome, along with a gift for making old worlds feel lively and human.
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, Anne Crosby Emery Allinson studied at Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1892. Brown University’s portrait collection notes that she then held Bryn Mawr’s prestigious European Scholarship, studied at the University of Leipzig, and returned to Bryn Mawr to earn a Ph.D. in 1896 with a dissertation on Greek syntax.
She went on to become an important academic administrator as the second dean—and first woman dean—of the Women’s College at Brown University, taking office in 1900. Brown’s materials also note that after her 1905 marriage to Francis Greenleaf Allinson, she left that post but continued writing.
Allinson published both scholarly and literary work. Sources including Brown University, LibriVox, and the Online Books Page connect her with books such as Greek Lands and Letters, Roads from Rome, Children of the Way, and Friends with Life, showing a writer whose interests ranged from the classical world to reflective essays and fiction.