Ivy Kellerman Reed

Ivy Kellerman Reed (Oshkosh [Wisconsin], July 8, 1877 – La Jolla [California], February 7, 1968) was an American author in the international language Esperanto.

Ivy Kellerman Reed

An accomplished linguist with four academic degrees for work in Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian and half a dozen modern languages, Reed was an ardent Esperantist.

Biography

She wrote two grammars for Esperanto. The Complete Grammar of the International Language, published in 1910, is a thorough, university-level examination of Esperanto grammar aimed at university- and college students, especially if they want to continue learning other languages. The Practical Grammar of the International Language, first published in 1915,[1] that ran to several editions, is targeted at the public. Both are available today online from Project Gutenberg or archive.org free of charge.

She was the translator with Ralph A. Lewin, of the famous Esperanto edition of Winnie-the-Pooh. She also translated Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the first performance of which was given at the sixth World Esperanto Congress in Washington D.C. in 1910.

She served as editor of American Esperantist.

She was a graduate of The Ohio State University, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta. She earned a master's degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. magna cum laude from the University of Chicago. She was also a lawyer. She served as grand treasurer of Delta Delta Delta from 1900 to 1902.

Books

Translations

References
  1. [Gutenberg says 1910?]
  • Works by Ivy Kellerman Reed at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Ivy Kellerman Reed at Internet Archive
  • Works by Ivy Kellerman Reed at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
  • Articles at JSTOR
  • “Remembering Some of Our Pioneers”, in “Esperanto USA”, which drew its information from A History of the Esperanto League for North America, Inc., OCLC 60755626.
  • Winnie-la-Pu in Esperanto
  • “The necessity of an international language” in “Popular Science”, 1909.
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