Barnette Miller

Alvenia Barnette Miller (December 1, 1875 – April 23, 1956) was an American writer and educator. She taught history at Wellesley College, and wrote mostly about Turkey, including a book, Beyond the Sublime Porte. She left over $100,000 to Wellesley College in her will.

Early life and education Miller was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, the daughter of James Meek Miller and Jane Baxter Davidson Miller. She had a brother, Brevard Davidson Miller. She graduated from the North Carolina College for Women in 1895. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1903, and completed doctoral studies in history in 1909, also at Columbia. She pursued further studies at the University of Paris and at Hartford Theological Seminary. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Career Miller was a "hearer" in English and French at Bryn Mawr College from 1900 to 1901. She was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,

Publications Miller's Beyond the Sublime Porte (1931) was reviewed in The New York Times as "an important and scholarly book. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes" (1903) Leigh Hunt's relations with Byron, Shelley, and Keats (1910) "The Passing of the Turkish Harem" (1920) "The New Turkey" (1923) Beyond the Sublime Porte: The Grand Seraglio of Stambul (1931, with introduction by Halidé Ebib) The Palace School of Muhammad the Conqueror (1941)

Personal life and legacy Miller died in 1956, at the age of 80, at a nursing home in South Natick, Massachusetts. She left Wellesley College over $100,000 in her will, establishing the Barnette Miller Foundation.