Mary Ellen Chase

For other people with the same name, see Mary Chase (disambiguation).

Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 – 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional literary figures of the early twentieth century.

Born in Blue Hill, Maine, Chase received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota where she served as an assistant professor from 1922 to 1926. She taught at Smith College starting in 1926 until her retirement in 1955. She was the lifelong companion of Eleanor Duckett, a medieval scholar whom she met at Smith, and with whom she lived in Northampton until her death. Two adjoining residence halls on the Smith campus are named for Chase and Duckett.[1]

Chase wrote more than 30 books, many using her cherished Maine heritage as the setting. Her most famous of these works include Mary Peters, Silas Crockett, Windswept, and Edge of Darkness.

Chase died in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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  1. ↑ Stuard, Susan Mosher (2005). "Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880–1976)". In Jane Chance. Women medievalists and the academy. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press. pp. 213–26. ISBN 978-0-299-20750-2.
  2. ↑ "Life and Language in The Old Testament" 1955 By Mary Ellen Chase (First Edition) Published By W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York



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