Background

Agress, Lynne Joy was born on December 14, 1941 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Morris M. and Dorothy (Cobin) Agress.

Education

AB, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Massachusetts, 1975. Certified, McIntire School Business, University Virginia, 1987.

Career

Teaching assistant, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1970-1975; freelance writer, editor, since 1979; assistant professor, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland., 1977-1978; instructor, U. Maryland., Baltimore, 1980-1982; instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1980-1987; instructor, Notre Dame College, Baltimore, 1986-1987; president, Business Writing At Its Best, Inc., Baltimore, since 1981. Chairperson education committee Engineering Society Baltimore, 1989-1990.

Achievements

• Lynne Joy Agress has been listed as a noteworthy small business owner by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early Nineteenth-century Literature

    (This book, originally published by Fairleigh Dickinson Un...)

  • The feminine irony : women on women in early-nineteenth-century English literature

Membership

Deacon 2d Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, 1986-1992, chairman adult education committee, since 1980;volunteer, fundraiser Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1989. Member Greater Baltimore Committee (various subcommittee since 1982), Modern Language Association, Rutgers/Douglass Alumni Club Maryland. (vice president since 1988), Baltimore Women's Forum (president since 1981).

Interests

• Avocations: symphony, theatre, travel, aerobics.

Connections

Father:

Morris M. Agress

Mother:

Dorothy (Cobin) Agress