Violet Barbour

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'''Violet Barbour''' (July 5, 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio – August 31, 1968) was an American historian.

==Education== She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

==Career== Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College as a professor of English and European history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/violet-barbour.html|title=Violet Barbour - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College|website=vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu}}</ref>

==Awards== * 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical Association

==Selected works== *''Privateers and pirates of the West Indies'', Cornell University, 1909 *''Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century'', University of Michigan Press, 1950 * [https://books.google.com/books?id=OwGc8KR9q5EC&q=Violet+Barbour ''Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II''], American Historical Association, 1915

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