425 research outputs found
Edith L. Fisch, Associate Professor, 1962-1965. President, New York Women\u27s Bar Association, 1970-1971.
No full textEdith L. Fisch, Associate Professor, 1962-1965. Professor Fisch served as president of the New York Women\u27s Bar Association from 1970 to 1971. She was the author of the treatise Fisch on New York Evidence and was the first female law professor in New York State when she began teaching at New York Law School in 1962. She was also the first woman to earn the J.S.D. degree at Columbia University Law School and the first person ever to earn all degrees awarded by the law school, receiving her LL.B. in 1948, her LL.M. in 1949, and her J.S.D. in 1950. Her accomplishments are all the more significant because Professor Fisch had contracted polio at the age of 12 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/bar_leaders/1003/thumbnail.jp
Edith L. Fisch, First Female Law Professor in New York State
No full textEdith Fisch, author of the treatise Fisch on New York Evidence, was the first female law professor in New York State when she began teaching at New York Law School in 1962. She was also the first woman to earn the J.S.D. degree at Columbia University Law School and the first person ever to earn all degrees awarded by the law school, receiving her LL.B. in 1948, her LL.M. in 1949, and her J.S.D. in 1950. Professor Fisch served as president of the New York Women\u27s Bar Association from 1970 to 1971. Her accomplishments are all the more significant because Professor Fisch had contracted polio at the age of 12 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/firsts/1007/thumbnail.jp
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
No full textEmily Orlando is co-editor and a contributing author (with Meredith L. Goldsmith), Introduction: Edith Wharton, A Citizen of the World, p.1-15.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton\u27s diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.-- Publisher\u27s description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/1067/thumbnail.jp
Edith Blades - Winning the AWI $50 Scholarship
No full textHandwritten Note - Speech - Mrs. Elizabeth L. Short to Edith Blades of Round Hill Women's Institute, on winning the AWI $50 Scholarship at the Vermillion School of Agriculture (2 pages)AWI Collectio
Edith Södergran
No full textShort presentation of Finland-Swedish author Edith Södergran and translation of four poem
L. Frank Baum Collection
No full textThe L. Frank Baum collection includes two manuscripts by the American children's book author, who is best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The manuscripts represent The Magic of Oz (published posthumously in 1919) and The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918). The Magic of Oz is written on the versos of two earlier manuscripts published under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne.
This collection was digitized as part of Project REVEAL (Read and View English & American Literature)
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