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“Rosemond Tuve is gracefully written and unexpectedly witty.”—Valley News
This is the biography of Rosemond Tuve, a remarkable woman scholar, who began life on the prairies of South Dakota and rose to honor and acclaim in the United States and abroad. Professor "Roz" Tuve believed passionately in the power of education to transform the lives of men and women. Her story is told mainly in her own compelling voice through personal letters, diaries, and lectures that are witty, profound, and eminently readable. Tuve was an internationally recognized Renaissance scholar, lecturing extensively in the US, France and Germany throughout her lifetime. A tenured professor at Connecticut College, she was the first visiting professor to Harvard University in 1958, and to Princeton University in 1961. She received a Fulbright fellowship in 1957, and received a NATO fellowship in 1960 to Aarhus University in Denmark. An inspiring story of one of the leading educators of her time, a reading of Rosemond Tuve is a reflection on education and rewards of the life of the mind.
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MARGARET EVANS was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, N. Y. After graduating from Connecticut College she attended Columbia University, receiving a Masters Degree in Renaissance Literature. At B. Altman & Co. she wrote advertising for New York newspapers and later served as acting editor of the Clinton Courier in Clinton, N. Y., contributing weekly columns. Her first published article, "The Luminous Life of Rosemond Tuve," appeared in the Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Fall, 1980. She has worked as a professional horsewoman, teaching equitation and training hunters and jumpers. She is a recognized judge with the American Horse Shows Association. She has four grown children and lives in Hartland, Vermont.
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