About Ruth Hughey
Lived 1899 – 1980 (aged 80–81). Ruth Hughey was an American university teacher and scholar of English.
Ruth Willard Hughey
After teaching English and Latin at St. Mary's Episcopal School from 1921 to 1923, Hughey worked as an English teacher at Henderson-Brown College (1923-1924), Grenada College (1924-1926), and the University of Missouri (1926-1929). Her annotated version of the manuscript, The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, was published by Ohio State University Press in 1960. where she had moved following her retirement. Her nephew was James T. Laney, who served as president of Emory University and United States Ambassador to South Korea.
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Who was Ruth Hughey?
American literary scholar (1899-1980)
When was Ruth Hughey born?
Ruth Hughey was born in 1899 in Gentry.
When did Ruth Hughey die?
Ruth Hughey died in 1980.
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Ruth Hughey was a university teacher and scholar of English.
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Ruth Hughey was American.
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