Professor Georgiana Goddard King at Bryn Mawr College (ca 1910) en color

Georgiana Goddard King (August 5, 1871 – May 4, 1939) was an American pioneer Hispanist and

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, as well as a photographer and teacher at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...

, where she was educated (B.A. 1896), and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art.

Biography

King was born August 5, 1871, in West Columbia, West Virginia. She was a member of the

Hispanic Society of America The Hispanic Society of America operates a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America, the Spanish East Indies, and Portuguese India. Despite the name, it ...

and of the

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. She was a traveling companion of

M. Carey Thomas Martha Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 – December 2, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, and linguist. She was the second president of Bryn Mawr College, a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Biography Early life ...

and had a friendship with

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. King died on May 4, 1939, in

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, and is buried in the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College's Old Library (previously M. Carey Thomas Library and College Hall).

Selected works

Books

* ''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account of Gothic architecture in Spain'' (1914, edited and enlarged by Georgiana G. King) * ''George Edmund Street, Unpublished notes and reprinted papers, with an essay by Georgiana Goddard King'' (1916) * ''The Way of Saint James'' (1920) * ''A Brief Account of the Military Orders in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

* "Early churches of Spain" in ''Bulletin of the Pan-American Union''. Nov.- Dec., 1918. * "Three unknown churches in Spain" in

American Journal of Archaeology The ''American Journal of Archaeology'' (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the ''American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts'' founded by t ...

, Vol. XXII (1918). * ''Spanish Abbeys'' (Washington, 1919). * "The Cardona tomb at Bellpuig" in

, 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

* ''Heart of Spain'' (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1941) * ''A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories'' (George W. Jacobs, 1901)

Photographs

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References

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