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Edward B. Pollard
1864–1927
A Baptist minister, teacher, and scholar, he wrote about religion and history with a wide-ranging curiosity. His best-known work, Oriental Women (1908), reflects both his academic training and the early-20th-century world in which he wrote.
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Oriental Women
by Edward B. Pollard
About the author
Born in Virginia in 1864, Edward Bagby Pollard studied at the University of Richmond, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. He went on to serve as a Baptist pastor and later taught at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
Pollard wrote on both religious and historical subjects. Records of his work link him to Oriental Women and to Christian Stewardship, and library listings also connect him with Crozer Quarterly, showing his role as both author and editor in theological and educational circles.
He died in 1927. While his books are less widely read today, they offer a glimpse into the scholarly and religious writing of his time, especially where faith, education, and cultural history met.