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A Woman of the Century: A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Helen Livermore Webster

"She handed to the faculty a dissertation, entitled 'Zur Gutturalfrage im Gotischen,' which attracted general comment by its wide research and scholarly handling."

(A Woman of the Century, p. 756)

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Helen Livermore Webster  (1853-1928)

  • Born in Boston, Helen grew up in Salem.

  • After having graduated from Salem Normal School, she taught high school in Lynn while continuing her own studies.

  • She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Philology from the University of Zurich

  • Dr. Webster taught at Barnard, Vassar, and Wellesley, where she was the Chair of Comparative Philology

  • After Rev. Silas Tertius Rand passed away, she wrote the preface to his Legends of the MicMacs.