Josephine Waters Bennett

Josephine Waters Bennett (January 15, 1899 – December 31, 1975) was an American literary academic who was president of the Renaissance Society of America from 1963 to 1964. A Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote the books The Evolution of The Faerie Queene, The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville (1954), and 'Measure for Measure' as Royal Entertainment (1966), and she worked as professor at Hunter College. Biography She was born on January 15, 1899, in Lakeside, Ohio.

She studied at Ohio State University, where she got her BA in 1924 and her MA in 1925, Working simultaneously under her previous position at Ohio State, she was promoted to instructor in 1936. She received another Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955. She was 75. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville (1954) 'Measure for Measure' as Royal Entertainment (1966)