Rosemond Tuve

Rosemond Teresa Marie Tuve (November 29, 1903 – December 20, 1964) was an American scholar of English literature, specializing in Renaissance literature—in particular, Edmund Spenser. She published four books on the subject (''Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery: Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-century Critics'', ''A Reading of George Herbert'', ''Images & Themes in Five Poems by Milton'', and ''Allegorical Imagery; Some Mediaeval Books And Their Posterity'') along with several essays.

In her professional life, Rosemond Tuve worked as a professor of English at many elite institutions. She was a Fellow in the English Departments at Bryn Mawr College. She then went on to be an English Instructor at Goucher College, Vassar College and Connecticut College. Tuve moved from English Instructor to full professorship at Connecticut College where she stayed for twenty-nine years. During her time as a professor at Connecticut College, Tuve spent several semesters as a visiting lecturer at other academic institutions including the University of Minnesota and Harvard University. After Tuve left Connecticut College, she moved to a job as a lecturer at Princeton University, followed by a job as a visiting professor and Senior Fellow of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. Finally, Rosemond Tuve was an English Professor at the University of Pennsylvania until she died in 1964. Provided by Wikipedia