Background
MacMullen, Ramsay was born on March 3, 1928 in New York City. Son of Charles William and Margaret (Richmond) MacMacMullen.
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We can apply to our reading of history the same powers of mind that we bring to novels. That is the idea of the book, to enrich our understanding of motivation -- the Why of history. Ancient writers knew this. That can be shown in detail. Modern psychology supports the idea. And the idea can be illustrated out of modern historians. An example: how a specific big event, abolition, developed out of feelings which any reader must share and, sharing, must understand better.
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The story in this book begins with the first letter in the year Eliza Champlain was born, 1797, in New London. It unfolds through her own, her mother's, and her aunt's correspondence - hundreds of letters now first published with explanatory chapters, commentary, and notes around them. Her aunt, at first in their home town and then (from 1811) for eight years in New York, was the first professional artist of her sex in the United States - Mary Way, a painter of miniature portraits. Eliza's mother, remaining at home, also earned her living by her brush. The two older women taught all they knew to Eliza, sometimes looking over her shoulder, sometimes in their letters. To show how artists went about their work in the period, nothing matches this collection. Paintings by all three can be found in various private collections and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The book through its color plates introduces an equal number of paintings hitherto unknown which were preserved with the letters. The core of the book, however, is the world of women - their circles and relationships, their concerns, and the opportunities open to them in the early Republic.
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This remarkable collection of letters invites the reader into the lives of three women as they pursue careers as artists. Like a novel, it contains episodes of great drama, as in the case of the letters in which Mary Way describes her struggles to support herself by painting miniature portraits while fighting advancing blindness. (Thomas Knoles, American Antiquarian Society)
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historian university professor
MacMullen, Ramsay was born on March 3, 1928 in New York City. Son of Charles William and Margaret (Richmond) MacMacMullen.
AB, Harvard University, 1950. AM, Harvard University, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1957.
Instructor, assistant professor, U. Oregon, 1956-1961; associate professor, professor, Brandeis U., 1961-1967; department chairman classics, Brandeis U., 1965-1966; professor, Yale University, 1967-1993; Dunham professor of history and classics, Yale University, 1979-1993; department chairman history, Yale University, 1970-1972; master Calhoun College, Yale University, 1984-1990.
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Member Society for Promotion Roman Studies, Association Ancient Historians (president 1978-1981).
Married Edith Merriman Nye, August 7, 1954 (divorced 1991). Children: John A., Priscilla N., William R., Lucinda S. Married Margaret McNeill, August 1, 1992.