WAUBurkeEdith5986.xmlGuide to the Edith B. Burke Scrapbook 1930-1997Burke (Edith B.) Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries© 2016 (Last modified: 8/10/2016)
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections5986 (Accession No. 5986-001)Burke, Edith BarasEdith B. Burke scrapbook1930-19970.18 cubic feet (1 box)Collection materials are in English.Scrapbook compiled by Edith Baras Burke, who taught Latin at St. Nicholas School in Seattle, Washington, and edited journals for the University of Washington

Edith Baras Burke was born in 1935. She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College and a master's degree in classics from Harvard University, and won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the Netherlands. Burke came to Seattle in 1960 to teach Latin at St. Nicholas School. She later became editor for Pacific Northwest Quarterly and Modern Language Quarterly, both published by the University of Washington. She was married to Robert Burke, a University of Washington professor of history. Burke died in 1995.

Scrapbook including family photographs, memorabilia, correspondence, and obituaries (added later by her friend Carol Johnson).

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Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Carol Thomas Johnson, 2009-06-01

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