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Ruth Putnam (author)

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Ruth Putnam (18 July 1856, Yonkers, New York – 12 February 1931, Geneva, Switzerland) was an author, suffragist, and alumni trustee of Cornell University.[1]

One of eleven children of the publisher George Palmer Putnam and his wife Victorine Haven Putnam, she received her bachelor's degree in 1878 from Cornell University (in 1873 Emma Sheffield Eastman had been the first woman to graduate from Cornell University). Putnam wrote a number of historical works and consulted original sources in Dutch, French, and German, as well as English. She also wrote a biography of her eldest sibling Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, who was a famous physician and suffragist.

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Putnam, Ruth". Who's Who in America, 1920–1921. 11: 2318. 1900.
  2. ^ "Review of A Mediaeval Princess—Jacqueline of Hainault by Ruth Putnam". The Oxford Magazine. 23. The Proprietors: 383–384. June 7, 1905.
  3. ^ "Review of Charles the Bold by Ruth Putnam". The Literary Digest. 36 (19): 656. 2 May 1908.
  4. ^ Austin, Herbert D. (1923). "Review of California: The Name by Ruth Putnam with the collaboration of Herbert I. Priestley". Southern Californian Review. 12: 29–31.
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Works by Ruth Putnam at Project Gutenberg