Dr.
Rosemary Sprague
A Longwood
Tradition Rosemary Sprague came to Longwood
was
as an Associate Professor
of English in 1962. In 1967 she named the College's first Board of
Vistors Distinguished Professor. She holds the B.A. degree in English literature from Bryn Mawr College, and the M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She has pursued postdoctoral at the Shake-
speare Institute at Sratford-on-Avon, Oxford University, and the University
London. Sprague has published seven historical novels, biographies of Robert of
Dr.
Brownings and George
Eliot,
IMAGINARY GARDENS,
a
and
Study of
Five American Poets. She has edited a volume of Robert Browning's poetry. Dr. Sprague is the founder of the Victorians Society of Virginian and North Carolina. She is a member of the usual professional organizations, including the Authors Guild, and she has
served as president of the Virginia Conference of the American Association of University Professors. She has recently completed a threeyear term as State Historian of the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution.
-Taken from the jacket of Longwood College: A History written by ,
Rosemary Sprague.
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