CHANNING, Eva. Boston 17.5.1854 — Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina 23.3.1930. U.S. Suffragist, Student of Indology. Born in a wealthy Boston family, daughter of William Francis Channing (1820–1901), a physician, scientist and abolitionist, and Susan Elizabeth Burdick, a suffragist. Parents divorced 1859. Studied at Boston University, graduated 1877. Then studied in Paris and Leipzig (with special permission) until 1882. Probably became a teacher in Boston. She was the first female member of both the American Oriental Society and the American Philological Association and acquainted with Whitney. She is described as a free spirit, adventurous and outspoken. Probably she was that “Eva Channing of Boston, who visited California in summer 1908 [and] was a firm believer in national parks” (Merchant).
Publications: M.A. thesis Myth-Genesis explained by Comparative Mythology. Manuscript 1877.
– “On Negative Clauses in the Rigveda”, JAOS 13, 1889, PAOS for 1886, xcix-cii.
– Translated: Delbrück, Introduction to the Study of Language. 14+142 p. Lp. 1882 (with her preface, x-xii); Pestalozzi, Leonard and Gertrude. 10+181 p. Boston 1885.
– Review of Delbrück’s Einleitung. AJPh 5, 1884, 251f.
Sources: Works in the N.U.C.; S.G. Alter, William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. Baltimore 2005, 312, note 68; C. Merchant, Earthcare. Women and the Environment. L. 1996, 133; S.L. Singer, Adventure Abroad. North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868–1915. L. 2003, 56f.
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