Oldest of four children born to Henry B. and Frances Melville Thomas, and a granddaughter of Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." She was a primary contributor to the Melville Revival in the 1920s, and in 1953 published her own study of him, "Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle." She gave to the Berkshire Athenaeum much of the material now housed in the Herman Melville Memorial Room.
Oldest of four children born to Henry B. and Frances Melville Thomas, and a granddaughter of Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." She was a primary contributor to the Melville Revival in the 1920s, and in 1953 published her own study of him, "Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle." She gave to the Berkshire Athenaeum much of the material now housed in the Herman Melville Memorial Room.
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