Evelyn K. Wells
Evelyn K. Wells | |
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 Evelyn K. Wells, from the 1913 yearbook of Wellesley College | |
| Born | Evelyn Kendrick Wells February 20, 1891 Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | August 1979 Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Folklorist, college professor, educator |
| Relatives | Eliza Hall Kendrick (cousin) |
Evelyn Kendrick Wells (February 20, 1891 – August 1979) was an American folklorist and educator, on the faculty of Wellesley College from 1936 to 1956.
Early life and education[edit]
Wells was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Henry Bartlett Wells and Emma Claflin Wells.[1] Her father was a businessman. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1913. She completed a master's degree at Wellesley in 1934. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[2]
Career[edit]
Wells worked at the Hartridge School in New Jersey after college. She was secretary of Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky for fifteen years,[3] beginning in 1916, and was interim director of the school in 1931. She was an English professor at Wellesley College from 1936 to 1956.[4][5] She taught a course on the ballad that gained some press attention in 1937.[6] She was a contributing editor of The Country Dancer, the journal of the Country Dance Society of America.[7] She served on the board of directors of the Northeast Folklore Society.[8]
Publications[edit]
- "A Little True Blue American" (1920)[9]
- "Playford Tunes and Broadside Ballads" (1937)[10]
- The Ballad Tree: A Study of British and American Ballads, Their Folklore, Verse and Music, Together with Sixty Traditional Ballads and Their Tunes (1950)[11]
- "Some Impressions of the Conference" (1951)[12]
- "Some Currents of British Folk Song in America 1916-1958" (1958)[13]
- "Cecil Sharp in America" (1959)[14]
Personal life[edit]
Before 1940, Wells lived with her older cousin, Eliza Hall Kendrick, who taught Biblical history at Wellesley.[15] Wells died in 1979, at the age of 88, in Summit, New Jersey.
References[edit]
- ^ "Wells Estate". The Courier-News. 1933-03-23. p. 11. Retrieved 2024-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wellesley Professor to Speak Tomorrow". Poughkeepsie Journal. 1959-04-02. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Will Tell About Mountain School". The Montclair Times. 1922-04-15. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Evelyn K. Wells, Staff Interim Director". Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Wellesley Club Christmas Party". The Item of Millburn and Short Hills. 1957-12-05. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wellesley Gives Course in Ballad; English Literature Students Learn by Singing Verses and the Refrain". The New York Times. April 4, 1937. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Masthead" (PDF). The Country Dancer: 2. Summer 1962.
- ^ "Northeast Folklore Group Meets". The Bangor Daily News. 1960-08-05. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wells, Evelyn K. "A Little True Blue American" Over Sea and Land: Our Southern Mountains (1920): 138-139". Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ Wells, Evelyn K. (1937). "Playford Tunes and Broadside Ballads". Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. 3 (2): 81–92. ISSN 0071-0563. JSTOR 4521108.
- ^ Bronson, B. H. (1951). "Review of The Ballad Tree: A Study of British and American Ballads, Their Folklore, Verse, and Music". Western Folklore. 10 (1): 88–90. doi:10.2307/1496647. ISSN 0043-373X. JSTOR 1496647.
- ^ Wells, Evelyn K. (1951). "Some Impressions of the Conference". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 3: 2–3. doi:10.1017/S0950792200008498. ISSN 0950-7922. JSTOR 835759.
- ^ Wells, Evelyn K. (1958). "Some Currents of British Folk Song in America 1916-1958". Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. 8 (3): 129–141. ISSN 0071-0563. JSTOR 4521556.
- ^ Wells, Evelyn K. (1959). "Cecil Sharp in America". Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. 8 (4): 182–185. ISSN 0071-0563. JSTOR 4521582.
- ^ Palmieri, Patricia Ann (1997-02-27). In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. Yale University Press. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-0-300-06388-2.