Louise Pound
Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished American
folklorist and educator.
Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to
Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound. Pound studied at the
University of Nebraska (B.B. 1892 and M.A., 1895). She continued her studies at the
University of Chicago and the
University of Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1900).
She was a professor of English at the
University of Nebraska for most of her adult life. She saw the university grow from a small prairie college to a great university.
Pound was a member of many professional societies. She was president of the
American Folklore Society, 1925-1927. She was the first woman to serve as president of the
Modern Language Association (1954-1955). An athlete in her youth, Pound was inducted into the
Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame in 1955.
Pound was a sister of noted legal educator
Roscoe Pound. She was involved in a
lesbian relationship with author
Willa Cather. [
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Poetic Origins and the Ballad (1922)
American Ballads and Songs (1923)
Selected Writings of Louise Pound (1949)
Nebraska Folklore (1959)
*"Pound, Louise."
American National Biography. 17:759-760. 1999.
*"Pound, Louise." The National Cyclopedia of American Biography''. 24:538. 1953.
