French Language and French Influences in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1927), title page and table of contents

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Rebecca Catherine Tansil was born on February 28, 1900, in Sharon, TN. She died on April 5, 1996, in Parkton, MD, where she lived for many years with her older sister, Blanche. (Blanche, also a Ph.D., was a retired professor of nutrition and home economics at the University of Mississippi.) She obtained her B. A. From the University of Tennessee in 1923; her M. A. From George Peabody College (in Nashville) (1927) and her Ph.D. from Columbia in New York (1939). (The Peabody College has since been absorbed by Vanderbilt University.) After her masters's degree, she did no other work on Poe. (Her doctoral dissertation dealt with personnel records for Teacher-Educations programs.) She started at Towson State Normal School in 1931, as a registrar. In 1948, she became the director of admissions of what had then assumed the name of the Towson State Teacher's College. She retired in 1963.

She and her sister were breeders of white miniature poodle, beginning in the 1950s. She was active in Pets on Wheels, The Maryland Kennel Club, the Greenspring Poodle Club, and a number of animal rights organizations, such as the S. P. C. A. She also created hand-made pottery and ceramics, and was a great proponent of Travel. In addition to her administrative role at Towson, she also taught Spanish as a part-time professor at the Baltimore Junior College (which later became the Baltimore City Community College). Former students fondly remember her as someone who was on the lookout for anyone who needed special attention or encouragement.

She never married or had children.

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