Georgiana Goddard King


Georgiana Goddard King was an American pioneer Hispanist and medievalist, as well as a photographer and teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where she was educated, and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art.

Biography

King was born August 5, 1871, in West Columbia, West Virginia. She was a member of the Hispanic Society of America and of the Royal Galician Academy. She was a traveling companion of M. Carey Thomas and had a friendship with Gertrude Stein. King died on May 4, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College's Old Library.

Selected works

Books

Comedies and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys and Girls The Way of Perfect Love.

Articles

  • "Early churches of Spain" in Bulletin of the Pan-American Union. Nov.- Dec., 1918.
  • "Three unknown churches in Spain" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXII.Spanish Abbeys.
  • "The Cardona tomb at Bellpuig" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXV.Some Churches in Galicia en Art Studies I.
  • "Algunos rasgos de influjo oriental en la arquitectura espafiola de la Edad Media" in Arquitectura, Vol. V Fact and Inference in the Matter of Jamb Sculpture en Art Studies VI.

In collaboration with others

Heart of Spain
  • ''A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories''