resting_place death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality birth_date known_for organization image article_title name occupation alma_mater
st marylebone cemetery , east finchley 15 april 1928 bloomsbury , england cottingham , yorkshire , england two aberdeen in 1895 and dlitt from the university of durham honorary in 1897 . doctorates , an lld from university of british 09 september 1850 one mythology of the founders of modern studies in greek lecturer , newnham college , 1898 -- 1922 jane ellen harrison.jpg jane ellen harrison
 jane ellen harrison classical scholar , linguist and feminist cheltenham ladies ' college ; newnham college , cambridge
jane ellen harrison

jane ellen harrison -lrb- 9 september 1850 -- 15 april 1928 -rrb- was a british classical scholar , linguist and feminist .
harrison is one of the founders , with karl kerenyi and walter burkert , of modern studies in greek mythology .
she applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of greek religion in ways that have become standard .
contemporary classics scholar mary beard , harrison 's biographer , has described her as `` in a way ... first female professional ` career academic ' '' .
ellen wordsworth crofts , later second wife of sir francis darwin was jane harrison 's best friend from her student days at newnham , and during the period from 1898 to her early death in 1903 .
