Winifred Bryan Horner

Winifred Bryan Horner (August 31, 1922 – February 4, 2014) was a historian of rhetoric who contributed to research on Scottish Enlightenment and feminist rhetorics.

She served as president of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators from 1985 to 1987 and president of the Rhetoric Society of America from 1987 to 1989.

She was a founder of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition have an award in her honor also, the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award. The student chapter of Rhetoric Society of America at Texas Christian University is also named in her honor. Horner attended Washington University for her bachelor's degree, graduating in 1943. She died on February 4, 2014.

Selected works

Composition and Literature: Bridging the Gap (1983) Rhetoric in the Classical Tradition (1988) The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric (1990). "The Roots of Modern Writing Instruction: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain," Rhetoric Review (1990) "Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow with An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Materials," Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1990) Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric at the Universities of Aberdeen and St. Andrews with An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Materials," Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1990) Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection (1993) Life Writing (1996) "Reinventing Memory and Delivery," in Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard Young (2000) (with Michael Leff) Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy (2013)