Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A biography.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A pilgrim in research in her time and ours

“…Yet Hollingworth was far above average. She worked hard to fully develop her own talents, as well as those found in others (Benjamin, 1975;H. Hollingworth, 1943;Shields, 1975 varied from the expected role of motherhood of that time.…”

Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Pioneer woman of psychology

“…Eighteen months later, on November 27, 1939, at the age of 53, Leta Stetter Hollingworth died of abdominal cancer. Not long before her death, she had written, as recorded by her husband (H. Hollingworth, 1943): T oday, Leta Hollingworth serves as a role model par excellence for women psychologists and educators of exceptional children. As the scientific pillar of the feminist movement, she demonstrated her commitment to the experimental method as one means of obtaining equality for women.…”

“…Leta was only 3 years old. The responsibility of rearing the three Stetter girls fell on the shoulders of their maternal grandparents, Mary Blair Danley 1 Unless otherwise noted, the primary source of information is H. L. Hollingworth (1943), Leta Stetter Hollingworth (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press). and Samuel Danley, because their father was not rearing his children responsibly.…”

Tribute to Halbert B. Robinson (1925–1981)

“…Her intensive work at Columbia from 1914 until her death in 1939 laid, along with that of Lewis M. Terman in California, firm foundations for attention to the gifted. Similarly, her spouse lessened some of his sorrow by loving attention to the completion of her unfinished work and to the preparation of her biography (L. Hollingworth, 1942;H. Hollingworth, 1943).…”