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Carey Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on January 2, 1857; the oldest of 10 children of Dr. James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. Both parents were active members of the Society of Friends.
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From the introductory. "Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight" was published for the first time in Sir Fred. Madden's "Syr Gawayne, a collection of ancient romance-poems by Scottish and English authors, relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table. London 1839. Printed for the Bannatyne Club". Prefixed to this edition is a description of the unique MS. Cott. Nero A x; in the same portion of which, and directly preceding our Sir Gawayne, are three other poems, written in the same hand and all (Madden ibid. p. 301) "most unquestionably composed by the author of the romance". Morris edited these three poems, under the titles of the Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience, for the E. E. T. S., in 1864 (2nd ed. 1869): and in the same year, for the same society, reedited Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (2nd ed. likewise 1869). He agrees with Madden in attributing all four poems to one and the same author; alleging for his opinion similarity of dialect. Prof. Trautmann in his Habilitationssft. Leipzig 1876, "Über Verfasser und Entstehungszeit einiger allit. Gdte. des Altengl." agrees with Morris, while deeming insufficient the ground assigned by him for his opinion. He himself reaches the same conclusion by applying "the best tests we can have" those of wort- und phrasen-gebrauch und versbau. The Pearl, not being written in alliteration, falls without the limits of his subject. But in his article "Der Dichter Huchown und seine Werke" (Anglia I, p. 118 120) he attributes the Pearl to the author of the other three poems, and enumerates the reasons as follows: I. 48 words rare or unknown in other poems and common to these 4. II. The similar treatment of the alliterative rhymes: a, the frequent alliteration wh : w. b, the frequent alliteration of the spiritus asper with the spiritus lenis. c, such alliterations as excused: scape, expoune: speche. He gives two examples from the Pearl. d, the frequent alliteration of combinations of 2 and 3 letters with each other (i.e. sp, cl, str, etc.), three in a line. Ground I. is not conclusive, because if we assume (as we have the right to assume, cf. Morris 2nd ed. of Allit. Poems, preface p. ix, note) another poet writing in precisely the same dialect, he would naturally make use of words which must have been common to that section of the country. Ground II. does not seem to me entirely convincing, because a and b are peculiarities which the Pearl shares with William of Palerne (cf. Trautmann Üb. Verf. u. Entst. p. 14); and d is found not only in Gaw. Cl. and Pat., but also, in a less degree, in Mort Arthure; and, to a much greater extent, in the Alexander Fragments. Trautmann is satisfied here with much lighter evidence than in the case of the poem of Gawain (cf. Üb. Verf. u. Entst.). Yet, apart from the complete proof he himself brings, there was, as I shall point out later for another purpose, an intimate connection between moral and descriptive passages of Gaw. and Cl.; while between the Pearl and the other poems there is no such link. It is separated from them by its versification; by the blending of allegory and personal feeling; by the different use too of the Bible, insomuch as while Cl. and Pat. are merely founded upon it, the author of the Pearl transports himself into the scenes in Revelations "which he describes.
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Carey Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on January 2, 1857; the oldest of 10 children of Dr. James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. Both parents were active members of the Society of Friends.
Her intellectual development was strongly influenced by the militant feminism of her mother and her aunt Hannah Whitall Smith, a renowned preacher and reformer. After attending private schools, Carey Thomas entered Cornell, then the only eastern university admitting women, as a junior, graduating in 1877 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Although admitted to graduate study at Johns Hopkins University by special vote of the trustees, she was dissatisfied with the policy that prevented her from attending seminars. In 1879 she went to Germany to continue her philological studies. She spent 3 years at Leipzig, which refused to grant degrees to women, as did Göttingen, where she also tried. Finally Zurich accepted her dissertation, and her brilliant defense won her a doctorate summa cum laude in 1882.
In 1884 Carey Thomas accepted the post of dean and professor of English literature at Bryn Mawr, then about to open as a college for women. She desired to build it into an institution that would encourage women to follow careers without having to face the difficulties with which she had struggled.
In 1894 she became president of Bryn Mawr, a post she held until her retirement in 1922. Her addresses to the student body were vividly remembered by many alumnae, inspiring them to strive for success in the professional careers that she had done so much to open to them.
Carey Thomas died in Philadelphia on December 2, 1935. Her ashes were scattered on the Bryn Mawr College campus in the cloisters of the Thomas Library.
Carey Thomas molded a curriculum that offered more advanced work than that given in many men's colleges and upheld the highest academic standards. She helped recruit an outstanding faculty at Bryn Mawr which permitted offering graduate work modeled after that at Johns Hopkins. She also helped open the Johns Hopkins Medical School to women by raising substantial sums on condition that no sexual discrimination be followed. She was active in the fight for woman's suffrage, helped organize the Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, and was the first woman trustee of Cornell. She played a major role in the League to Enforce Peace.
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Thomas was an ardent suffragist. In 1908 she was first president of the National College Women’s Equal Suffrage League, and she later was a leading member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. After 1920 she advocated the policies of the National Woman’s Party and was an early promoter of an equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution.
Quotations:
"The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?"
"Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women. "
"I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life. "
"One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men. "
"It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth. "
Carey Thomas never married.
