Wilmer Cave Wright

Wilmer Cave Wright
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornEmily Wilmer Cave France
January 21, 1868
Birmingham, England, U.K.
DiedNovember 16, 1951
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • classical philologist
  • author
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater
Genrenon-fiction
Spouse
J. Edmund Wright
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(m. 1906)​
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Parents

Emily Wilmer Cave Wright (née, France; January 21, 1868 – November 16, 1951) was a British-born American classical philologist, and a contributor to the culture and history of medicine.[1] She was a professor at Bryn Mawr College, where she taught Greek.[2] Wright's works include, The Emperor Julian’s relation to the new sophistic and neo-Platonism (1896), A Short History of Greek Literature, from Homer to Julian (1907), Julian (1913–23), Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists (1922), Against the Galilaeans (1923), Hieronymi Fracastorii de contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione libri III (1930), and De morbis artificum Bernardini Ramazini diatriba (1940). Giovanni Maria Lancisi: De aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum (1952), and Bernardino Ramazzini: De Morbis Typographorum (1989) were published postmortem.

  1. ^ Emerson, Haven (March 1954). "Wilmer Cave Wright, Ph.D.–1865-1951". Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 30 (3): 223–226. ISSN 0028-7091. PMC 1804414. PMID 19312610.
  2. ^ "Wilmer C. Wright". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 1 June 2019.