{{Similar names|Elizabeth Reed (disambiguation){{!}}Elizabeth Reed}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Sophia Elizabeth Armstrong Reed | image = Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (1842–1915).png | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|05|16}} | birth_place = Winthrop, Maine | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|06|18|1842|05|16}} | death_place = Chicago, Illinois | resting_place = | occupation = Author, editor | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Hindu Literature, or, The Ancient Books of India | children = Myrtle Reed, Earl Howell, Dr. Charles B. Reed | relatives = Clare Osborne Reed (daughter-in-law) | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Sophia Elizabeth Reed''' ({{nee|'''Armstrong'''}}; 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.

==Biography== Reed 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 Buchanan, Michigan. Reed was the mother of author Myrtle Reed, and two sons, Earl Howell and Charles B. Reed.<ref>''Woman's Who's Who of America'', Volume 1</ref>

In 1893, Reed 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).<ref>So We All Can Be Heard, the history of the Illinois Woman's Press Association</ref> She received honorary degrees from Northwestern and Illinois Wesleyan universities and Bethany College.

Elizabeth Armstrong Reed died in Chicago on June 18, 1915.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43741640/widely_known_writer_is_dead/ |title=Widely Known Writer is Dead |newspaper=Spokane Chronicle |location=Chicago |page=21 |date=June 18, 1915 |access-date=2020-02-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Selected works== * ''The Bible Triumphant'' (1866) * ''Earnest Words for Honest Sceptics'' (1876) * ''Hindu Literature; or the Ancient Books of India'' (1891)<ref>{{cite journal|title=''Hindu Literature; or the Ancient Books of India'' by Elizabeth A. Reed|journal=American Anthropologist|date=April 1893|volume=6|issue=2|page=206|jstor=658280|doi=10.1525/aa.1893.6.2.02a00030 }}</ref> * ''Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern'' (1893) * ''Primitive Buddhism: Its Origins and Teachings'' (1896) * ''Daniel Webster: A Character Sketch'' (1899) * ''Hinduism in Europe and America'' (1914)

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