Ola Elizabeth Winslow (January 5, 1885 in

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– September 27, 1977 in

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) was an American historian, biographer, and educator. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century American

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whose basic writings she edited for

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. Born in

, Winslow was an instructor at College of the Pacific from 1909 to 1914, when she earned a master's degree from Stanford University. She was professor of English at

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(1914–1944) and at Wellesley College (1944–1977, emeritus after 1950). Winslow earned a Ph.D. from the

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in 1922 with a thesis that was later published as a book with the title ''Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642''. Winslow died in Maine at age 92.

Books

* ''Low Comedy as a Structural Element in English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642'' (Menasha, WI, 1926) – "originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 1922""Low comedy as a structural element in English drama "
(1973 reprint). Library of Congress Catalog Record (LCC). Retrieved 2013-11-26. * ''Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography'' (Macmillan, 1940) – 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography * ''Meetinghouse Hill, 1630–1783'' (Macmillan, 1952) – about the Dorchester church and settlement, now in Boston * ''Master Roger Williams: a biography'' (Macmillan, 1957) * ''John Bunyan'' (Macmillan, 1961) – biography of

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* ''

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of Boston'' (Macmillan, 1964) * ''

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: the life of a town'' (Macmillan, 1966) * '' John Eliot, apostle to the Indians'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1968) * ''"And plead for the rights of all": Old South Church in Boston, 1669–1969'' (Boston: Nimrod, 1970) * ''A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of

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in Colonial Boston'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1974) ;As editor * ''Harper's Literary Museum'' ( Harper & Bros, 1927), compiled by Winslow – Subject: American literature—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775 – first of a series designed by

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, not continued – reissued as ''Harper's literary museum, a compendium of instructive, entertaining, and amusing matter, selected from early American writings'' (Arno, 1972) * ''American Broadside Verse from Imprints of the 17th & 18th Centuries'' (Yale University Press, 1930), selected and edited with an introduction by Winslow"American Broadside Verse "
(1974 edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2013-11-26. * ''Jonathan Edwards: basic writings'', selected and edited with a foreword by Winslow (New American Library, Signet Classics, 1966) * ''

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: with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ola Elizabeth Winslow'' (Grolier, The World's Great Classics, 1968), Grolier Edition of the 1820 classic by

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