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Lifetime: 1856 - 1931 Passed: ≈ 93 years ago

Title

Author, Suffragist

Country/Nationality

Switzerland
Wikipedia

Ruth Putnam

Ruth Putnam was an author, suffragist, and alumni trustee of Cornell University.

One of eleven children of the publisher George Palmer Putnam and his wife Victorine Haven Putnam, Ruth Putnam received her bachelor's degree in 1878 from Cornell University. (In 1873 Emma Sheffield Eastman was the first woman to graduate from Cornell University.) Ruth Putnam wrote a number of historical works and consulted original sources in Dutch, French, and German, as well as English. She also wrote a biography of her eldest sibling Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, who was a famous physician and suffragist.

Books by Ruth Putnam

Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy Cover image

Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy

Biography
Dream Independence Kingdom Autobiography Life Conquest

Charles the Bold was the last Duke of Burgundy of the House of Valois. Born in 1433, his dream was to be crowned king by declaring the territory of Burgundy an independent kingdom. He increased his land through purchase and conquest, leading to serio...