Caroline Robbins
{{Short description|British historian}}
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Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College.
Life
Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903.J. R. Pole, ‘Robbins , Caroline (1903–1999)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/72015, accessed 8 Sept 2015] Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was a Councillor on the Middlesex County Council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31612 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
She took her doctorate at London University with a treatise on Andrew Marvell. Robbins became an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr College in 1929. She served in that department for 42 years. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.
She married Stephen J. Herben Jr., who was also a professor at Bryn Mawr, in 1932. Robbins died in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999. After she died a professorship was founded in her name.
Works
- The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development and Circumstances of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1959.
- Two English Republican Tracts. Cambridge University Press, 1969.
- Barbara Taft: Absolute Liberty: A Selection from the Articles and Papers of Caroline Robbins. Archon Books, Hamden CN 1982. {{ISBN|0-208-01955-3}}
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Category:People from Middlesex
Category:20th-century British historians
Category:British women historians
Category:20th-century British women writers
Category:British emigrants to the United States
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