biography
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Judson, Margaret Atwood
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| female
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| lived:
| (1899–1991)
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| biography:
| Historian and educator, born in Winstead, Connecticut, USA. She studied at Radcliffe College (1933 PhD), and taught at Rutgers University (1928–67; professor emeritus, 1967–91), where she was chairwoman of the history and political science department (1955–63) and acting dean (1966–7). Her Crisis of the Constitution: An Essay in Constitutional and Political Thought in England, 1603–45 (1949), is widely respected. She published Breaking the Barrier: A Professional Autobiography by a Woman Educator and Historian before the Women's Movement in 1984. |
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