Jane Ellen Harrison
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Biography Jane Ellen Harrison
British classical scholar and linguist
Was born on 09 sep 1850.
Died on 15 apr 1928, at 77 years old.
Died on 15 apr 1928, at 77 years old.
Origin country United Kingdom
Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar and linguist. With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology.
She applied 19th-century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of ancient Greek religion in ways that have become standard. She has also been credited with being the first woman to obtain a post in England as a 'career academic'.
Harrison argued for women's suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, later second wife of Sir Francis Darwin, was Jane Harrison's best friend from her student days at Newnham, and during the period from 1898 to her death in 1928.
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