From Fort Wayne to Munich: The Education of Edith Hamilton

Presented by Victoria Houseman

We will see how aspects of Edith Hamilton’s writing were influenced by her education, which began at home in Fort Wayne. This was followed by her experiences at Miss Porter’s School and four more years of study at home before she was able to enter Bryn Mawr College in 1891. Her classics professors at Bryn Mawr, Paul Shorey and Gonzalez Lodge, both left a discernible influence upon her writing, as did her year of graduate study in Germany, where she ultimately became the first woman officially admitted to the University of Munich. This presentation will use Edith Hamilton’s letters to question some of the assumptions which have appeared in previous writings about Edith Hamilton.

Book signing to follow lecture.