Warde (née Becker), Beatrice Lamberton Becker (1900–1969), typographer

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literary critic May Lamberton Becker. Following her parents' divorce, she was raised and home-schooled by her mother and widowed grandmother, and was influenced by her mother's love of literature and Unitarianism. She later attended Horace Mann School, Manhattan (1912-16) and, from 1916, Barnard College, Columbia University, graduating in 1921. Endorsed by a family friend, the typographer Bruce Rogers, her first job was as assistant librarian at the American Type Founders Library, the foremost printing library in America. This marked the beginning of a career supported by influential colleagues, including Stanley Morison, the British typographer and printing historian, who became her