Louise Adams Holland

Louise Adams Holland (3 July 1893–21 June 1990) was a philologist, university teacher, academic and archaeologist.

Early life and education Born in Brooklyn in New York State (it would not become part of New York City until five years later) in 1893 as Louise Elizabeth Whetenhall Adams, she was the third child but first daughter of six children of Henrietta (née Rozier) and Charles Frederick Adams, a lawyer. Her younger sister was the United States Poet Laureate Léonie Adams.

During World War II Holland did war work for Midvale Steel, returning to teach at Bryn Mawr College after the war. From 1948 to 1949 she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and from then on taught at Haverford College before moving to teach at Miami University in 1952. Her husband died in 1952 and in 1957 she returned to Smith College remaining there until her retirement in 1964 apart from a period from 1959 to 1960 when she was a resident scholar at the American Academy in Rome.