Edith Philips

Edith Philips
Born	(1892-11-03)November 3, 1892 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	July 19, 1983(1983-07-19) (aged 90) Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1928)
Academic background
Alma mater	Goucher College (B.A., 1913) University of Paris (Ph.D. 1923)
Thesis	Les réfugiés bonapartistes en Amérique (1815–1830) (1923)
Academic work
Institutions	Goucher College Swarthmore College
Main interests	18th-century French literature French emigration
Notable works	The Good Quaker in French Legend

Edith Philips (November 3, 1892 – July 19, 1983) was an American writer and academic of French literature. Her research focused on eighteenth-century French literature and French emigration to the United States. She was a Guggenheim Fellow (1928) and a professor of French at Goucher College and Swarthmore College. In 1932, she published The Good Quaker in French Legend. She served as the acting dean of women at Swarthmore and was later appointed the Susan W. Lippincott Professor of French in 1941. Philips was the founding chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Swarthmore, serving in this position from 1949 to 1960.