daughter of Marvin Snell and Sara Eleanor Fonda; taught at Mt. Holyoke College , wrote "Palatines Along the Mohawk and their Church in the Wilderness" (South Hadley, Mass, 1948), "Pause: a study of its nature and its rhythmical function in verse, especially blank verse" (R. West, 1918) and co-Author w/Thomas Huxley "Autobiography and Selected Essays" (Houghton Mifflin, 1909); born 11-May-1870, died Apr-18-1972 at 101 years of age; b. Geneva, Ontario, New York; 1880 US Census, Geneva, Ontario, New York; d. Westchester Co., New York; BA 1899 Yale University; Massachusetts 1906 Yale University; PhD 1916 University of Michigan; student 1899-1900 University of Chicago; student 1904-1905 Bardwell Memorial Fellow Yale University; student 1927-1928 Oxford University; Phi Beta Kappa; teacher 1892-1894 Danville Kentucky; teacher 1896-1898 Philadelphia; instructor, associate professor, professor (English) 1900-??Mount Holyoke College writer.
Sources and references
- Mt. Holyoke College
- "Pause: a study of its nature and its rhythmical function in verse, especially blank verse"