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Virginia Tufte (Virginia James) was born on 19 August, 1918 in Meadow Grove, Nebraska, is an American professor of English (1918–2020). Discover Virginia Tufte's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?
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Virginia James |
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102 years old |
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Leo |
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19 August, 1918 |
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19 August |
| Birthplace |
Meadow Grove, Nebraska |
| Date of death |
2020 |
| Died Place |
Beverly Hills, California |
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United States
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Virginia Tufte Height, Weight & Measurements
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Edward Tufte |
Virginia Tufte Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Virginia Tufte worth at the age of 102 years old? Virginia Tufte’s income source is mostly from being a successful professor. She is from United States. We have estimated Virginia Tufte's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Virginia James Tufte (August 19, 1918 – March 28, 2020) was a writer and distinguished emerita professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Her special fields were Milton, Renaissance poetry, and the history and grammar of English.
Virginia James was born in Meadow Grove, Nebraska, one of the ten children of Micah Dickerson James and Sarah Elizabeth Bartee James.
She attended Midland College and worked as a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Nebraska State Journal as a young woman.
Virginia James married Edward E. Tufte in Omaha in 1940; her husband was city engineer and public works director of the city of Beverly Hills, California, for many years.
Their son is Edward Rolf Tufte, an expert in the field of information design, and active as a sculptor.
After marriage, Tufte pursued further education, earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1944, a master's degree from Arizona State University, and master's and doctoral degrees in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her 1964 dissertation was titled "Literary Backgrounds and Motifs of the Epithalamium in English to 1650".
Tufte was a member of the English faculty of the University of Southern California for 25 years, beginning in 1964, and retiring in 1989.
At USC, she won teaching awards and was a co-founder of several interdisciplinary programs.
Her book The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and its Development in England (1970), a comprehensive history of the English epithalamium, grew from her doctoral research.
She also made studies of artists as interpreters of John Milton's poems.
She was perhaps best known for Grammar as Style (1971), which developed a new following several decades after it had gone out of print, prompting her to write its successor, Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style (2006).
Besides her work on syntax and style, Tufte was notable for books and essays in two other areas of literary study and for a video biography.
Tufte's interest in life and family histories is reflected also in two collaborative books with anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, Changing Images of the Family (1981) and Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling and Growing Older (1992).
Besides numerous essays and contributions to books in this field, some in collaboration with Wendy Furman-Adams of Whittier College, she wrote and produced a one-hour video biography of a literary illustrator Reaching for Paradise: The Life and Art of Carlotta Petrina (1994) that has appeared on educational television stations, is archived in college and university libraries, and is in use in classrooms.
Virginia James Tufte was widowed when her husband died in 1999; she died in 2020, aged 101 years, at her home in Beverly Hills.
