Lucinda Pearl Boggs
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
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| birth_place = Hayes, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1931|1874}}
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| field = Philosophy, Psychology
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Lucinda Pearl Boggs (November 18, 1874 – 1931) was an American psychologist and philosopher who is known for her work in the field of child development, as well as for her contributions to the study of women in China.
Biography
Boggs was born November 18, 1874, in Hayes, Illinois, the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Boggs and Mary Jane (Armstrong) Boggs.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSEMAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Lucinda+Pearl+Boggs%22&pg=PA155 |title=The Alumni Record of the University of Illinois at Urbana |date=1906 |publisher=University of Illinois |pages=155 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Franklin W. |title=The Semi-Centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois |date=1918 |publisher=University of Illinois |page=76, entry 791}}
Boggs received her B.A. in 1894 from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6nOAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Lucinda+Pearl+Boggs%22&pg=PA56 |title=The Alumni Quarterly of the University of Illinois |date=1914 |pages=56 |language=en}} and between 1894 and 1897 she taught at Rice Collegiate Institute in Paxton, IL. She began studying for her doctorate at the University of Jena in Jena, Germany, but transferred to the University of Halle, where she wrote her thesis "John Dewey's Theory of Interest and its Application in Pedagogy".{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Dorothy G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vi0eEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lucinda+Pearl+Boggs%22&pg=PA288 |title=Women Philosophers Volume II: Entering Academia in Nineteenth-Century America |date=2021-04-08 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-07088-2 |pages=288 |language=en}} She received her PhD from the University of Halle in 1900.
After receiving her PhD, she taught psychology at Washington State Normal School between 1901 and 1902,{{cite journal |title=Former Principals and Teachers |journal=The Quarterly of the Washington State Normal School (Ellensburg) |date=June 1915 |volume=8|issue=1 |page=80}} after which she was an honorary fellow in psychology and philosophy at Cornell from 1902 to 1903.{{cite web |last1=De Sando |first1=Salvatore |date=2018-02-01 |title=Illini Everywhere: Chinese Illini, Since 1906 |url=https://archives.library.illinois.edu/slc/chinese-illini/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Student Life and Culture Archives |publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago-Urbana}}
She was a professor of philosophy and psychology Western College for Women (1905–1908) and also taught at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (c1905-1906, c1915, c1922).
Boggs participated in an educational mission in China from 1910 to 1912.
She adopted a daughter, Rosalind Emma, born on February 23, 1913.
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl|doi=10.1080/08919402.1905.10534675|title=How Children Learn to Read: An experimental study|journal=The Pedagogical Seminary|volume=12|issue=4|year=1905|pages=496–502}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl| url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2010931|title=The Psychical Complex Called an Interest|journal=Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods|volume=2|issue=25|date=1905-12-07|pages=681–687|doi=10.2307/2010931 |jstor=2010931 |url-access=subscription}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl| url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2012289|title=The Relation of Feeling and Interest|journal=Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods|volume=3|issue=17|date=1906-08-16|pages=462–466|doi=10.2307/2012289 |jstor=2012289 |url-access=subscription}}
- Lucinda Pearl Boggs, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2011657 "The Psychology of the Learning Process,"] The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 4, No. 18 (Aug. 29, 1907), pp. 477–481
- L. Pearl Boggs, "Review of The Psychological Experiences connected with the Different Parts of Speech, by Eleanor H. Rowland, The Psychological Review, Monograph Supplement, January, 1907. Pp. 42.", The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 5, Issue 2, (Jan. 1908), pp. 52–53.
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl|title=The Position of Women in China|journal=Popular Science Monthly|volume=82|date=January 1913}}
- {{Cite book|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl|url= https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3570057|title=Chinese Womanhood: With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|publisher=Jennings and Graham|year=1913}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2939683|title=A Partial Analysis of Faith|journal=Journal of Philosophy|volume=19|issue=1|date=1922-01-05|pages=15–24|doi=10.2307/2939683 |jstor=2939683 |url-access=subscription}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Boggs|first=Lucinda Pearl|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2939429|title=Review of An Introduction to Psychology by Susan S. Brierley|journal=The Journal of Philosophy|volume=19|issue=24|date=1922-11-23|pages=666–667|doi=10.2307/2939429 |jstor=2939429 |url-access=subscription}}
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