Julia Keese Nelson Colles | |
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 Posthumous miniature portrait of Colles, painted by her daughter, artist and suffrage activist Gertrude Colles. | |
| Born | 1840 |
| Died | 1913 (aged 73) |
| Spouse | George Wetmore Colles (1867–1886) |
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Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840–1913) was an American historian, lecturer, and writer who lived in and studied Morristown, New Jersey.
In 1893, she published a collection of Morristown, New Jersey history in Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown.[1] Colles also helped found the women's branch of the New Jersey Historical Society, and served as the chair of social science at Rutgers Female College in New York City.[2] She was also a member of the Women's Town Improvement Association, and the American Historical Association.
She gave educational lectures in private homes in Morristown, New Jersey. She gave in-depth lectures focused on the lives of famous literary figures, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Coleridge, Byron, Milton, Goethe, and Chaucer.[3] Other topics included German literature, Russian literature, drama, the art of conversation, Alfred the Great, Marie Antoinette, Martha Washington, Marie Louise, and Hortense de Beauharnais.[3]
- ^ Colles, Julia Keese (1893). Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown: With a Chapter on Historic Morristown. Morristown, NJ: Vogt Bros.
- ^ "Colles family - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ^ a b "Manuscript Group 1080, Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840 - 1913) Papers 1890 - 1906". 2016-03-22. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2022-10-25.