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Catharine (given Name)
Catharine is a feminine given name, a variation of Katherine or Catherine. Notable people with the name include: In education: * Catharine Beecher, noted educator * Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist * Catharine Merrill, one of the first female university professors in the United States In literature: * Catharine Webb Barber (1823-?), American newspaper editor, author * Catharine Carver (1921–1997), American-British publisher's editor * Catharine H. Esling (1812-1897), American writer * Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery, 1844–1911), American author, editor, educator * Catharine Trotter Cockburn, 1679–1749), English novelist, dramatist, philosopher * Catharine Dixon, Canadian journalist and author of non-fiction books * Catharine Sedgwick, American novelist In science: * Catharine Cox, American psychologist known for her work on intelligence and genius * Catharine Garmany, astronomer In rulers: * Catherine the Great , e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A '' Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or '' gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual '' The American Woman's Home'' with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869. Some sources spell her first name as "Catherine". Biography Early life and education Beecher was born September 6, 1800, in East Hampton, New York, the daughter of outspoken minister and religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. Among her siblings were writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher. Beecher was educated at home until she was ten years old, when she was sent to Litchfield Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut, where she was taught the limited curriculum available to young women. The experience left her longing for addit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. As an expert on international law, constitutional law, political and legal theory, and jurisprudence, MacKinnon focuses on women's rights and sexual abuse and exploitation, including sexual harassment, rape, prostitution, sex trafficking and pornography. She was among the first to argue that pornography is a civil rights violation, and that sexual harassment in education and employment constitutes sex discrimination. MacKinnon is the author of over a dozen books, including ''Sexual Harassment of Working Women'' (1979); '' Feminism Unmodified'' (1987), '' Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Merrill
Catharine Merrill (January 24, 1824 – May 30, 1900) was an educator, author, and American Civil War nurse from Indiana who became the second female university professor in the United States. She is best remembered as a talented educator and admired for her modesty and kindness. In 1869 Merrill accepted the appointment as the first Demia Butler Chair of English Literature at North Western Christian University, now known as Butler University, and began her fourteen-year career as a university professor during the 1869–70 academic year. Merrill resigned the professorship in 1883, but continued to offer private instruction at her home until shortly before her death. In addition to becoming a teacher, Merrill was a published author, although it was not her primary goal. Articles describing her travels in Europe from 1859 to 1861 were published in Indiana newspapers. She also anonymously wrote ''The Soldier of Indiana in the War for the Union'' (1866, 1869). ''The Man Shakespeare and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Webb Barber
Catharine Webb Barber (, Barber; after first marriage, Towles or Towle; after second marriage, McCoy; October 25, 1823 - November 15, 1893) was an American teacher, newspaper editor, and author. She was born in Massachusetts, but came South, settling first in Georgia and afterward in Alabama. According to ''The Alabama Review'', 1983,— "Establishing a bibliography of the works of Catharine W . Barber Towles McCoy is as difficult as establishing the facts of her life. Only a few of her numerous contributions to ephemeral Georgia periodicals can now definitely be known." Biography Catharine Webb Barber was born in Charlemont, a village on the banks of the Deerfield River, in Franklin County, Massachusetts, October 25, 1823. She was the youngest of ten children of Rufus Barber, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a New England farmer. In 1843, her father died, and Barber, at the advice of her brother, came south, and entered the Lafayette Female Seminary, at Chambers Court House, Alabam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Carver
Catharine DeFrance Carver (September 17, 1921 – November 11, 1997) was an American-British publisher's editor who worked from the 1940s to the 1990s. She worked for Reynal & Hitchcock, Harcourt Brace, Viking Press, J. B. Lippincott & Co., and ''The New Yorker'' in the United States before deciding to severe all ties with the United States and went to England in the 1960s. Carver went on to be employed by Chatto & Windus, John Murray, Oxford University Press, Victor Gollancz and Yale University Press among other publishers. Early life Carver was born in Cambridge, Ohio on September 17, 1921. She was the only daughter of paymaster Don Carver, and his wife Harriett, ''née'' Aududdle. Not much is known about the early life of Craver. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Muskingum College in close by New Concord in May 1943, and briefly enrolled at University of Chicago. Career In 1945, Carver relocated to New York, and had her first job as an editor at the Reyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Catharine may refer to: * Catharine (given name) In geography: * Catharine, New York * St. Catharine, Missouri * Saint Catharine, Kentucky * Catharine, Illinois * Catharine, Kansas * St. Catharines, Ontario See also *Catherina (and similar spellings) Catherina is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Dona Catherina of Kandy (died 1613), ruling Queen of Kandy in 1581 * Catherina Boevey (1669–1726), English philanthropist * Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch, (1785–1858), Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery
Catharine H. T. Avery (, Tilden; December 13, 1844 - December 22, 1911) was an American author, editor, and educator of the long nineteenth century. Of Revolutionary ancestry and hailing from Michigan, she was founder and regent of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), of Cleveland, Ohio; Vice-President General of its National Society; and editor of the National Society's official organ, the ''American Monthly''. She also served two years as a member of the Cleveland School Board, being the first woman in Ohio chosen to an elective office. After the death of her father in 1861, she moved with her step-mother to Massachusetts. She was educated in the Normal School of that state and taught school in Massachusetts. Soon after the first meeting of the DAR, she became a member of the District of Columbia Society. The first president-general, Caroline Harrison, offered her the state regency of Ohio. She declined, but accepted the regent's commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Trotter Cockburn
Catharine Trotter Cockburn (16 August 1679 – 11 May 1749) was an English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher. She wrote on moral philosophy, theological tracts, and had a voluminous correspondence. Trotter's work addresses a range of issues including necessity, the infinitude of space, and the substance, but she focuses on moral issues. She thought that moral principles are not innate, but discoverable by each individual through the use of the faculty of reason endowed by God. In 1702, she published her first major philosophical work, ''A Defence of Mr. Lock's ic.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding''. John Locke was so pleased with this defence that he made gifts of money and books to his young apologist acting through Elizabeth Burnet who had first made Locke aware of Trotter's "Defence". Her work attracted the attention of William Warburton, who prefaced her last philosophical work. She also had a request from the biographer Thomas Birch to aid him in compiling a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Dixon
Catharine Dixon (born 1927) is a Canadian journalist and author of non-fiction books. A resident of Elliot Lake, Ontario for almost fifty years, in the 1970s, Dixon worked as a reporter for the ''Sault Star'' newspaper in Sault Ste. Marie. The author of several short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ..., her 1996 book ''The Power and the Promise'' is a historical reference for the city of Elliot Lake. She currently lives in Barrie, Ontario. Bibliography * ''The Power and the Promise'' (1996) * ''As it Happened'' (2001) External links Catharine Dixon book referencing websiteCatharine Dixon fondsat Laurentian University. 1927 births Living people Canadian women journalists Canadian non-fiction writers Journalists from Ontario Writers from Ontar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharine Sedgwick
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867) was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as " domestic fiction". With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals. She became one of the most notable female novelists of her time. She wrote work in American settings, and combined patriotism with protests against historic Puritan oppressiveness. Her topics contributed to the creation of a national literature, enhanced by her detailed descriptions of nature. Sedgwick created spirited heroines who did not conform to the stereotypical conduct of women at the time. She promoted Republican motherhood. Early life and education Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born December 28, 1789, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her mother was Pamela Dwight (1752–1807) of the New England Dwight family, daughter of General Joseph Dwight (1703–1765) and granddaughter of Ephraim William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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