Tuve, Rosemond (1903–1964)
Tuve, Rosemond (1903–1964)
American scholar and educator. Born Rosemond Tuve, Nov 27, 1903, in Canton, SD; died Dec 20, 1964, in Bryn Mawr, PA; dau. of Anthony Gulbrandssen Tuve (president of Augustana College, Canton, SD, and mathematician) and Ida Marie (Larsen) Tuve (music teacher); University of Minnesota, AB, 1924; Bryn Mawr College, AM, 1925, PhD, 1931; attended Somerville College, Oxford, 1928.
Awarded Bryn Mawr European fellowship (1925); taught at Goucher College (1926–28); received American Association of University Women fellowship and attended Somerville College, Oxford, in England (1928); taught at Vassar College (1929–31), and at Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry; published Seasons and Months: Studies in a Tradition of Middle English Poetry (1933), Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery (1947), A Reading of George Herbert (1952), and Allegorical Imagery (1966); taught at Connecticut College, and established reputation as leading American literary scholar of Renaissance (1934–62); was visiting lecturer at University of Minnesota (1952), Harvard University (1956), University of Aarhus, Denmark (1960), and Princeton University (1961); joined faculty of University of Pennsylvania (1963).