Alice Bache Gould, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American historian
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Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
About Alice Bache Gould
- Alice Bache Gould (January 5, 1868 – July 25, 1953) was an American mathematician, philanthropist, and historian, who spent much of her time in Puerto Rico, South America and Spain.
- She was impelled in that direction by her family's sometime residence in Argentina during her childhood, where her father held a responsible position as an astronomer. Sent home for her education, Bache Gould trained as a mathematician and undertook graduate studies in mathematics, teaching for a time at Carleton College, Minnesota.
- Enrolled at MIT, she failed to complete her thesis and obtain the PhD, due to poor health.
- Finding work as a mathematician subsequently proved difficult.Being fluent in Spanish, she began subsequently to follow her true interest in Spanish-American studies, working for several years in the educational system of Puerto Rico.
- She abandoned mathematics for history and began to do research on the colonization of the Americas by Spain.
- World War I found her doing research in Madrid, where she promptly volunteered for war work at the American Embassy there, and, sent home, in the United States.
- Subsequently, she found her way back to Spain, where she remained, doing research and publishing articles and a book on Agassiz.
- When the Spanish Civil War came along she retired to the United States, returning when it was over for the peak of her career. As a historian, her studies of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella I of Castile resulted in the most complete biographical account of Columbus' crew.
- In 1942, Gould became the only female corresponding member of Real Academia de la Historia and was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic (in 1952).
- Previously she had received other honors. Gould never married or had any children.
- She had close relationships with a few female friends, carried on mainly by correspondence.
- There is no evidence of any sexual involvement with either sex.
- One friend joked about the low-cut dresses she wore to Puerto Rico.
- As a researcher in Spain she was a highly respected aging unmarried lady with greying hair.
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