Georgiana Goddard King

Professor Georgiana Goddard King at Bryn Mawr College (ca 1910)
Georgiana Goddard King (1905), by Charles W. Hawthorne

Georgiana Goddard King (August 5, 1871 – May 4, 1939) was an American pioneer Hispanist and medievalist, as well as a photographer and teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where she was educated (B.A. 1896),[1] and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art.

Biography

[edit]

King was born August 5, 1871, in West Columbia, West Virginia. She was a member of the Hispanic Society of America and of the Royal Galician Academy.[2][3][4][5] She was a traveling companion of M. Carey Thomas and had a friendship with Gertrude Stein.[1] King died on May 4, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College's Old Library (previously M. Carey Thomas Library and College Hall).[6]

Selected works

[edit]

Books

[edit]
  • Comedies and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys and Girls (1904)
  • The Way of Perfect Love (1908).
  • George Edmund Street, Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1914, edited and enlarged by Georgiana G. King)
  • George Edmund Street, Unpublished notes and reprinted papers, with an essay by Georgiana Goddard King (1916)
  • The Way of Saint James (1920)
  • A Brief Account of the Military Orders in Spain (1921)
  • The Play of the Sibyl Cassandra (1921)
  • A Citizen of the Twilight (1921)
  • Sardinian Painting (1923)
  • Pre-Romanesque Churches of Spain (1924)
  • Mudéjar (1927)

Articles

[edit]
  • "Early churches of Spain" in Bulletin of the Pan-American Union. Nov.- Dec., 1918.
  • "Three unknown churches in Spain" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXII (1918).
  • Spanish Abbeys (Washington, 1919).
  • "The Cardona tomb at Bellpuig" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXV (1921).
  • Some Churches in Galicia en Art Studies I (Nueva York, 1923).
  • "Algunos rasgos de influjo oriental en la arquitectura espafiola de la Edad Media" in Arquitectura, Vol. V (1923)
  • Fact and Inference in the Matter of Jamb Sculpture en Art Studies VI (Princeton, 1926).

In collaboration with others

[edit]
  • Heart of Spain (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1941)
  • A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories (George W. Jacobs, 1901)

Photographs

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Georgiana Goddard King papers, 1874-1939". dla.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  2. ^ Wethey, Harold E. (1939). "An American Pioneer in Hispanic Studies: Georgiana Goddard King". Parnassus. 11 (7): 33–35. doi:10.2307/771955. ISSN 1543-6314. JSTOR 771955. S2CID 165799462.
  3. ^ Iker, Annemarie (30 November 2016). "Photographs of the "Dust of the Highway": Georgiana Goddard King's Way of Saint James". Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture. 5: 27–52. doi:10.5195/contemp.2016.149.
  4. ^ Pozo García, del, Alba (2014). Instituto Franklin - Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (ed.). "Heart of Spain: dos viajeras estadounidenses en la España de principios de siglo XX" (in Spanish). Informes USA. pp. 1–6.
  5. ^ Hernández Ferreirós, Ana (2008). "Saint Mary of Melón por Georgiana Goddard King»". Quintana: Revista del Departamento de Historia del Arte. Universidad de Santiago: 7. ISSN 1579-7414.
  6. ^ Mann, Janice (2005). Women Medievalists and the Academy. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 121.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgiana_Goddard_King&oldid=1177203639"