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Repplier

American  
[rep-leer] / ˈrɛp lɪər /

noun

  1. Agnes, 1855–1950, U.S. essayist.


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Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would.

From Time Magazine Archive

Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual account of missionary activity but admits finally: "Mere Marie was fundamentally humorless."

From Time Magazine Archive

In truth, Indiana had begun to blot out the whole of New England, and Miss Agnes Repplier had begun to stain our map of culture with the modulated tints of Philadelphia.

From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis