Elizabeth Armstrong Reed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetElizabeth Armstrong Reed
American writer
Date of Birth: 16-May-1842
Place of Birth: Winthrop, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 18-Jun-1915
Profession: orientalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Elizabeth Armstrong Reed
- Sophia Elizabeth (Armstrong) Reed (May 16, 1842 – June 18, 1915) was an American Oriental scholar and author whose books were widely used as college textbooks in various universities worldwide for Oriental studies.
- Hers were, at the time, the only works by a woman accepted by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.
- She was born in Winthrop, Maine. She was married to Hiram Vaughn Reed, an Age to Come (One Faith) preacher and newspaper publisher, in 1860, meeting him at a religious debate in Buchannan, Michigan.
- She was the mother of author Myrtle Reed, and two sons, Earl Howell and Charles B.
- Reed.In 1893 she was chairman of the Woman's Congress of Philology at Chicago and in 1896 became an editor of the Course of Universal Literature.
- Reed served two terms as the president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association 1894 (January) until 1896 (June) and 1902 (June) until 1904 (June).
- She received honorary degrees from Northwestern and Illinois Wesleyan universities and Bethany College.
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