Rose, Phyllis, 1942-
Biography
Phyllis Rose (born 1942) was a professor of English at Wesleyan University from 1969 until her retirement in 2005. She received a BA from Radcliff College, MA from Yale, PhD from Harvard, and an MAAE from Wesleyan University. She is the author of three biographical works: Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf (1978), Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (1983), and Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time (1989). She has also authored two collections of essays and reviews and her memoirs entitled The Year of Reading Proust (1997), and edited the Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993). She is a contributing writer to many publications including the New York Times Book Review,The Sophisticated Traveler, and Civilization Magazine, and is on the editorial board of The American Scholar.
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Phyllis Rose correspondence
Phyllis Rose (born 1942) was a professor of English at Wesleyan University from 1969 until her retirement in 2005.
The collection consists of ten pieces of correspondence related to the Wesleyan English Department or other professional business.