Mary Lynch Johnson Papers

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        <date>2004</date>
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      <abstract id="aspace_43709e2dd7e2f548cbaf08895d4d029a">Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson was an alumnus of Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, and a long-time professor of English at the college. The papers contain her correspondence; articles and tributes about her; and her writings.</abstract>
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      <p>Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson was born May 13, 1897, in Scotland County. She was an alumnus of Meredith College (B.A., 1917) in Raleigh, N.C. Johnson continued her education by getting a master's degree at Columbia and her doctorate at Cornell University. In 1918, she returned to Meredith College to be a professor of English. In 1952, she became head of the English Department.</p>
      <p>Her published writings include <title render="italic"><part>Elizabeth Avery Colton: An Educational Pioneer</part></title>; articles on poets and authors in <title render="italic"><part>The Groteqsue in Browning</part></title>; and <title render="italic"><part>The History of Meredith College</part></title>.</p>
      <p>She died on July 17, 1984. That same year, in 1984, Meredith College established its first endowed chair in her name, the Mary Lynch Johnson Chair of English.</p>
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      <p>The papers contain her correspondence (1934-1971), including letters from Gerald White Johnson (1934), Bob Melvin (1962), and Wingate Johnson (1963); articles about her; booklet tributes, undated; <emph render="italic">News and Observer</emph>; family papers; her articles aand other writings; and a booklet from Scotland County, N.C.</p>
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      <p>Mary Lynch Johnson Papers (MS317), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.</p>
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