Edith Philips, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American educator and writer
Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1892
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 19-Jul-1983
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Edith Philips
- 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 1949–1960.
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