Background
Miriam Rossiter was born on the 1st of March, 1899 in Goshen, Connecticut, United States.
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Miriam Rossiter studied at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Miriam attended Yale University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in 1923 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1925.
Miriam Rossiter was born on the 1st of March, 1899 in Goshen, Connecticut, United States.
Miriam Rossiter studied at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918. Also, she attended Yale University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in 1923 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1925.
Miriam began her career as a teacher of French and English at public and private schools, that post she held between 1919 and 1922. Then, she joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as an instructor in English in 1925. Two years later, she became a professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, New York, the post she held until 1964. Besides, she was chairman of the American Studies Program there from 1940 to 1964.
Small's first book, Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: An Eighteenth-Century Lady of Letters, was published by Yale University Press in 1936. Her second monograph, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was issued by Twayne in 1962. Moreover, she contributed a critical foreword to Elsie Venner, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, published by Signet Books in 1961.
Miriam Rossiter was a member of the American Studies Association, Modern Language Association and Phi Beta Kappa.