I lived from 1907-2000. I was from the United States.
Elizabeth (Perkins) Aldrich (b. ca 1907 in Cambridge, d. February, 2000 )
Writer and editor
Elizabeth Perkins attended Buckingham School and graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She was married to federal judge Bailey Aldrich of Cambridge, MA. She assisted Harvard Professor, Ralph Baron Perry, in the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Thought and Character of William James, later becoming sole editor of the briefer version of that work. In 1942, she produced a volume of James’ selected writings: As William James Said. She volunteered for CARE and for Shady Hill School in Cambridge, for which she was an overseer and an initiator and head of the Parents Work Plan. She was 93 when she died.
References: Cambridge Chronicle 2-18-00; Paid death notice of Judge Bailey Aldrich September 29, 2002.; NY Times, news obit of Bailey Aldrich, September 30, 2002
Writer and editor
Elizabeth Perkins attended Buckingham School and graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She was married to federal judge Bailey Aldrich of Cambridge, MA. She assisted Harvard Professor, Ralph Baron Perry, in the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Thought and Character of William James, later becoming sole editor of the briefer version of that work. In 1942, she produced a volume of James’ selected writings: As William James Said. She volunteered for CARE and for Shady Hill School in Cambridge, for which she was an overseer and an initiator and head of the Parents Work Plan. She was 93 when she died.
References: Cambridge Chronicle 2-18-00; Paid death notice of Judge Bailey Aldrich September 29, 2002.; NY Times, news obit of Bailey Aldrich, September 30, 2002
My poetry
- The man has spread his silver wings,
Is six miles nearer heaven,9 lines
