Annabelle Terhune
Annabelle Burdick Terhune ({{circa}} 1904, Pittsburgh – June 24, 1986, Syracuse, New York) was an American journalist, editor and scholar, specialising in the life of Edward FitzGerald. She won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1982.
Life
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Annabelle Burdick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Westinghouse High School, and was valedictorian of her class in 1920.{{cite news|newspaper=The Gazette Times|location=Pittsburgh|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/85902979/?terms=%22annabelle%20burdick%22&match=1|date=June 25, 1920|title=158 Graduate from City High Schools|accessdate=6 April 2021}} She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was tennis champion,{{cite news|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=December 30, 1923|title=U. of M. co-eds who capture tennis honors|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/97467316/?terms=%22annabelle%20burdick%22&match=1|accessdate=6 April 2021}} and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University.{{cite journal|journal=Syracuse University Library Associates Courier|url=https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1367&context=libassoc|volume=XXI|number=1|year=1986|title=In Memoriam|page=93|accessdate=6 April 2021}}
Burdick taught journalism at the University of Pittsburgh.{{cite news|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|date=February 15, 1931|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/146308513/?terms=%22annabelle%20terhune%22&match=1|title=The College Set|accessdate=6 April 2021}} She was also a fashion correspondent for The Display World magazine.{{cite journal|journal=The Display World|year=1926|title=With the New York Displaymen|volume=9|issue=5|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_vmsd-experience-retail-now_1926-11_9_5/page/44/mode/2up?q=%22annabelle+burdick%22|page=44|accessdate=6 April 2021}}
In 1929, she married Alfred McKinley Terhune (1899–1975), a scholar.{{cite news|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/146286274/?terms=%22annabelle%20burdick%22&match=1|accessdate=6 April 2021|title=Miss Annabelle Burdick Bride of Home Ceremony|date=August 21, 1929}} They moved to Syracuse, New York, where Alfred Terhune became a professor of English at the Syracuse University.
With her husband, Burdick began the monumental task of collecting and collating Edward FitzGerald's correspondence, transcribing, annotating and arranging them in chronological order.{{cite journal|jstor=3194795|title=Reviewed Work: The Letters of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald, Alfred McKinley Terhune, Annabelle Burdick Terhune|journal=Modern Language Studies|year=1986|volume=16|number=4|first=Peter|last=Morgan}} The result was four volumes, published in 1980, after Alfred Terhune's death. The work was lauded for thoroughness and considered invaluable not only for FitzGerald studies, but also for scholars of the Victorian society and history.{{cite journal|journal=Victorian Poetry|first=Erik|last=Gray|jstor=40347523|title=FitzGerald and the "Rubáiyát", in and out of Time|volume=46|number=1|year=2008|pages=1–14 |doi=10.1353/vp.0.0001 |s2cid=162338563 }}{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Letters of a Victorian Man of Letters|date=December 19, 1980|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/401467496/?terms=%22annabelle%20terhune%22&match=1|accessdate=6 April 2021|first=John|last=Weston|page=25}} Burdick won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1982 for the work.{{cite web|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2628/Rose-Mary-Crawshay-Prize-pre-2000.pdf|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=6 April 2021|title=The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize}}
Selected works
- {{cite book|title=The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, 1830–1850|volume=I|editor1-first=Alfred|editor1-last=Terhune|editor2-first=Annabelle Burdick|editor2-last=Terhune|publisher=Princeton University|year=1980}}
- {{cite book|title=The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, 1851–1866|volume=II|editor1-first=Alfred|editor1-last=Terhune|editor2-first=Annabelle Burdick|editor2-last=Terhune|publisher=Princeton University|year=1980}}
- {{cite book|title=The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, 1867–1876|volume=III|editor1-first=Alfred|editor1-last=Terhune|editor2-first=Annabelle Burdick|editor2-last=Terhune|publisher=Princeton University|year=1980}}
- {{cite book|title=The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, 1877–1883|volume=IV|editor1-first=Alfred|editor1-last=Terhune|editor2-first=Annabelle Burdick|editor2-last=Terhune|publisher=Princeton University|year=1980}}
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