Gertrude Buck, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Gertrude Buck

American rhetorician

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1871

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1922

Profession: teacher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gertrude Buck (July 14, 1871 - Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1922) was one of a group of powerful female rhetoricians of her time.
She strived to inspire young women to take on leadership roles within the democracy using the written word.
She wrote many books, plays, articles, and poems relating to her cause.
Her parents were Judge M.
Buck and Annie Buck.
She lived out most of her life after college in Poughkeepsie, New York with close friend and colleague, Laura Wylie.
The two were rumored to be lovers.
She never married or had any children.
Buck dedicated her life to "challenging the patriarchal paradigm with her reformist views of pedagogy and rhetoric".