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Flora Ross Amos
b. 1881
A pioneering scholar of translation history, she is best known for tracing how English writers thought about translation from the medieval period through the early modern era. Her best-known book grew out of doctoral research and remains of interest to readers curious about the long history of literary translation.
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Early Theories of Translation
by Flora Ross Amos
About the author
Born in 1881, Flora Ross Amos was a literary scholar whose name is closely linked with Early Theories of Translation, published by Columbia University Press in 1920. The book was also presented as her Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1919, and it examines how English writers discussed translation across several centuries.
Amos also taught at what is now Case Western Reserve University. A university history page lists her as an instructor from 1912 to 1916 and an assistant professor from 1916 to 1919, placing her among the early women scholars teaching English there.
Although little easily verifiable biographical detail survives online, her work has had a lasting afterlife through library collections and public-domain editions. Readers still encounter her today through Early Theories of Translation, a careful, early study of ideas about translation that helped preserve an important intellectual history.