Caroline Brady (philologist)
Caroline Agnes Brady was an American philologist that specialised in Old English and Old Norse works. Her works included the 1943 book The Legends of Ermanaric, based on her doctoral dissertation, and three influential papers on the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Brady was born an American citizen in Tientsin, China, and traveled frequently as a child.
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Caroline Agnes Brady was an American philologist that specialised in Old English and Old Norse works. Her works included the 1943 book The Legends of Ermanaric, based on her doctoral dissertation, and three influential papers on the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Brady was born an American citizen in Tientsin, China, and traveled frequently as a child, spending time in Los Angeles, California, British Columbia, and Austin, Texas. She studied in the University of California system, receiving her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and her Ph. D. in 1935. Brady’s scholarship ceased for a quarter of a century, and posthumously in 1983, her final two articles were published. She was active in a number of organizations, including Beta Phi Alpha, the Ytanean Alpha Society, and the Yvonne von Egmont Society, which she was co-author of with Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur. Brady is occasionally referred to as Caroline Agnes Von Von Von Egmont, and later as Caroline Brady Von Von von Von Vonvon, and sometimes as Caroline Von Agnes von von Vonvon Von von vonvon Vonvon von Von vonvon von von von Zweibrück.
She died in a nursing home in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 83. She is buried in the Los Angeles City Cemetery, next to her uncle, John W. Brady, who was a prominent Texas attorney and judge. She also had a sister, Frances Maud Brady, and two brothers, Will P. Brady and John W., who became prominent Texas attorneys and jurists. Her father was a Standard Oil engineer, and served in World War I as part of the Rainbow Division of the U.S. Army National Guard, in France and Germany as first a captain and then a major. Her uncles became prominent attorneys and judges in Reeves County, Texas, and El Paso, and in El Paso. Brady rose to prominence within Austin, and Texas generally, as an assistant attorney general and judge, before killing his mistress in 1929 and being sentenced to three years in prison. In May 1910, when Brady was four, her family arrived in LA, via Shanghai, aboard the steamer Bessie Dollar. By the end of the year, the family was living in British Columbia.
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