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Myra Reynolds
1853–1936
A pioneering literary scholar and teacher, she helped shape the study of English literature in the United States and wrote with a special interest in poetry and women writers.
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The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
by Myra Reynolds
About the author
Born in Troupsburg, New York, in 1853, Myra Reynolds became an American literary scholar, educator, and author. She studied at Vassar College, later taught there, and went on to build a long academic career at the University of Chicago, where she became one of its early women professors of English.
Her work centered on English literature, especially poetry. She is known for books including The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry between Pope and Wordsworth and for her studies of writers such as Wordsworth and Shelley. She also wrote about women in literature, bringing attention to subjects that were not always given much space in literary study at the time.
Reynolds died in 1936. Remembered as both a scholar and a teacher, she stands out as part of the generation of women who helped open university life and literary scholarship to a wider range of voices.