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Agnes Newhall Stillwell

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Agnes Newhall Stillwell
A smiling young white woman with dark hair, wearing a fur coat and standing outdoors
Agnes Newhall Stillwell, from the 1927 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College
Born
Agnes Ellen Milan

March 4, 1906
DiedApril 8, 1957 (1957-04-09) (aged 51)
OccupationArchaeologist
SpouseRichard Stillwell

Agnes Ellen Newhall Stillwell (March 4, 1906 – April 8, 1957) was an American archaeologist, focused on Corinth.

Early life and education

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Newhall was born Agnes Ellen Milan in Southwest Harbor, Maine.[1] Agnes was partly raised by an aunt, educator Laura L. Newhall, in Boston.[2] Agnes was described as a niece of Millie Milan and her older sister Hattie Hamblen, when both women died on the same day, in Maine in 1932.[3]

Newhall graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, and pursued graduate studies on a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[4] where she was based until 1935.[5]

Career

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Stillwell moved to Princeton, New Jersey, because her husband was a professor there.[6] She continued working alongside her husband in Greece,[7] and writing scholarly articles.[8] Her inventories from excavating at Corinth continued to inform other scholars' work.[9][10]

Publications

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  • "Eighth Century B.C. Inscriptions from Corinth" (1933)[11]
  • The Potter’s Quarter (1948, with Jack Leonard Benson)[12]
  • The Potter’s Quarter: The Terracottas (1952)[13]

Personal life and legacy

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Agnes Newhall married Richard Stillwell, head of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in London in 1932.[5] They had two children, Richard and Theodora. Richard became a chemist, and Theodora followed her parents in doing archaeological work at Corinth.[7][14] Agnes Newhall Stillwell died in 1957, at the age of 51, in Princeton.[15] Her granddaughter Camilla MacKay is also an archaeologist by training.[8][16]

References

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  1. ^ "Miss Agnes E. Newhall Former Southwest Harbor Girl Engaged to Marry". The Bangor Daily News. May 26, 1932. p. 10. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Winner of $2000 Scholarship Niece of South Boston Woman". The Boston Globe. p. 11. Retrieved May 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Two Sisters on Same Day". The Bangor Daily News. April 21, 1932. p. 4. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "South Boston Girl Wins Athens Fellowship". The Boston Globe. May 1, 1928. p. 23. Retrieved May 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Agnes Newhall Engaged to Marry; Niece of Miss L. F. Newhall of Boston to Wed Professor Richard Stillwell; Both are Now in Greece; Bridegroom-to-Be, Princeton Graduate, Recently Named Head of American School at Athens". The New York Times. 1932-05-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  6. ^ "Richard Stillwell Dies; Princeton Archeologist". The New York Times. 1982-08-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  7. ^ a b "Theodora Stillwell MacKay, 1938–1998" (PDF). American School of Classical Studies at Athens Newsletter (41): 18. Summer 1998.
  8. ^ a b "Touring Antiquity: The Richard Stillwell Collection". Visual Resources Collection, Princeton University. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  9. ^ Weinberg, Saul S. (1949). "Investigations at Corinth, 1947–1948". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 18 (1): 148–157. doi:10.2307/147002. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 147002.
  10. ^ Brownlee, Ann Blair (2003). "Workshops in the Potters' Quarter". Corinth. 20: 181–194. doi:10.2307/4390723. ISSN 1558-7185. JSTOR 4390723.
  11. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall (1933-10-01). "Eighth Century B. C. Inscriptions from Corinth". American Journal of Archaeology. 37 (4): 605–610. doi:10.2307/498126. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 498126. S2CID 193019509.
  12. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall; Benson, Jack Leonard (1948). The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery. ASCSA. ISBN 978-0-87661-153-1.
  13. ^ Stillwell, Agnes Newhall (1952). "The Potters' Quarter: The Terracottas". Corinth. 15 (2): iii–300. doi:10.2307/4390693. ISSN 1558-7185. JSTOR 4390693.
  14. ^ Mackay, Theodora Stillwell (1975). "Three Poets Observe Picus". The American Journal of Philology. 96 (3): 272–275. doi:10.2307/293840. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 293840.
  15. ^ "Deaths in Jersey". Courier News. April 9, 1957. p. 26. Retrieved May 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Camilla MacKay". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 2023-05-16.