Caroline Wilby Prize

The Caroline I. Wilby Prize was founded in 1897 in memory of Caroline I. Wilby, by her friends and former students. The prize is given annually to the student who has produced the best original work within any of the departments of Radcliffe College, Cambridge in Massachusetts.[1] The prize is only awarded if a dissertation or thesis is considered worthy enough.[1]

The prize was given for the first time in 1899 to Kate Oelzner Petersen, for her thesis On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale.[2] Other winners include the medievalist Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), for her thesis Morgain, la fée, a study in the fairy mythology of the middle ages,[3] the historian Grace Lee Nute (1895-1990) for her thesis American foreign commerce (1825-1850)[4] and also the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), for her thesis On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes….[5] Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's dissertation, Surface photometry of external galaxies[6][7] won the Wilby Prize in 1941.[8]

Recipients

Year Recipient Title
1899 Kate Oelzner Petersen[1] On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1900 Lucy Allen Paton[1] Studies in the fairy mythology of Arthurian romance in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1904 Belva Mary Herron[1] Progress of Labor Organization among Women in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Caroline Strong[1] Tail-Rhyme Strophe in English Poetry
1905 Eleanor Harris Rowland[1] Aesthetics of the Repetition of Visual Space Forms in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1906 Frances Hall Rousmaniere[1] Certainty and attention in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1907 Mabel Ellery Adams[1] An Inquiry into the Condition of one hundred deaf persons who have been pupils at the Horace Mann School in Boston
1909 Kate Fairbanks Puffer[1] Interrelations of psychophysical rhythmical processes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1910 Maud Bassett Gorham[1] The traditions of restoration comedy in the works of Richardson, Fielding & Smollett in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1911 Ruth Holden[1] Reduction and Reversion in the North American Salicales in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1912 Charlotte Farrington Babcock[1] A study of the metrical use of the inflectional e in Middle English, with particular reference to Chaucer and Lydgate in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1913 Elizabeth Church[1] The Gothic romance : its origins and development in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1915 Evelyn Spring[9] Quo Modo Aeschylus in Tragoediis Suis Res Antecedentis Exposuerit: A study of exposition in Greek tragedy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1916 Frances Isabella Hyams[10] A brief history of the American theatre : with especial reference to the eighteenth century, supplemented by collections toward a bibliography before 1900 in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1917 Caroline Frances Tupper[11] Oliver Goldsmith as a Critic in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1918 Olive B. White[12] The Verse Translations of John Dryden
1919 Marian Irwin[13] Effect of Electrolytes and Non-electrolytes on Organisms in Relation to Sensory Stimulation and Respiration in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Nellie Gertrude Chase[13] Studies in allegory in English literature of the eighteenth century in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1920 Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks[14] Quantitative studies on the respiration of Bacillus subtilis (Ehrenberg) Cohn in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Bernice V Brown[14] Status of armed merchantmen in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1921 Grace Lee Nute[15] American foreign commerce (1825-1850) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1922 Hannah G. Roach[16] Sectionalism in American Politics from the Reconstruction Period to 1890
1923 Mary Ballantine Hume

Eva Matthews Sanford

(shared prize)[17]
1924 Cecilia H. Payne[18] Ionization in the Atmosphere of the Hotter Stars
1926 Olive B. White

Eleanor Lansing Dulles

The Background of English Renaissance in 15th Century Oxford

The French Franc Since the War (shared prize)[19]

1928 Marine Leland[20] The damsel-errant in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1929 Katherine Hartwell[21] The Influence of the Latin Church Father, Lactantius, on the Works of John Milton
1930 Marjorie K. Carpenter[22] Greek Hymnography: A Study of the Christmas Hymn
1931 Mary Frances Williams[23][24] Contemporary German Architecture
1933 Gerda Richards Crosby[25] The Transformation of the Tory Party after 1780: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Party Politics
1934 Catherine E. Boyd[26] A Cistercian Nunnery in Italy in the 13th Century
1935 Marie L. Edel

LaTourette Stockwell

The Relations Between Prose and Metrical Composition in Early Irish Narrative Literature

The Dublin Theatre, 19637-1820 (shared prize)[27]

1936 Sarah Margaret Cousins[28]
1937 Dorothy Kneeland Clark[29] Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, Lord Treasurer
1938 Dorrit Hoffleit[30] On the spectroscopic determination of absolute magnitudes : with application to southern stars of types later than A in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1939 Muriel E. Hidy[31] George Peabody, Merchant and Financier
1941 Florence Shirley Patterson[8] Surface photometry of external galaxies in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1942 Sylvia Leah Berkman[32] Katherine Mansfield: A Study of Her Life and Work
1943 Dewilda Naramore[33] The Arriereban in Medieval France
1944 Cora C. Mason[34] The Ethics of Wealth in Early Greek Thought
1946 Evelyn Hodes Wilson[35] Antimalarials
1947 Alice Rose Stewart[36] The Imperial Policy of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada's First Prime Minister
1948 Ilse Novak[37] On the Consistency of Goedel's Axioms for Class and Set Theory Relative to a Weaker Set of Axioms
1949 Cecelia Marie Kenyon[38] Conceptions of Human Nature in American Political Thought, 1630–1826
1950 Adrienne Rich for her poetry; first undergraduate to win the Wilby[39]
1951 Barbara Bell[40] A Study of Doppler and Damping Effects in the Solar Atmosphere
1952 Dorothy E. Bliss[41] Endocrine Control of Metabolism in the Decapod Crustacean, Gecarcinus Lateralis
1953 Margery W. Adams[42] Art in the 11th and 12th Centuries
1954 Isabel Emory Gamble[43]
1955 Judith N. Shklar[44] Fate and Futility: Two Themes in Contemporary Political Theory
1958 Patricia Hochschild Labalme[45]
1959 Roberta F. Colman[46] Studies on Dicarboxylic Amino Acids
1960 Rulan Chao Pian[47] Sung Dynasty Music Sources
1961 Jean H. Wheeler[48] Freedom and America
1962 Evelyn Ann Pottinger[49] Napoleon III and the German Crisis

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