Charlotte Crawford Watkins

Charlotte Crawford Watkins was born in New Haven in 1913 to attorney George Crawford (Yale Law School class of 1903) and Sadella M. Donaldson Crawford. Her family attended Dixwell Congregational Church. A graduate of Wellesley College, she continued her education at Yale, completing a PhD in English in 1937.

After completing her degree at Yale, Watkins taught at Dillard University, Lincoln University, and Morgan State University before joining the Howard University faculty in 1948. In 1951, she married linguist, anthropologist, and fellow Howard professor Mark Hanna Watkins.

A scholar of 19th century British literature, Watkins continued teaching at Howard until her retirement in 1978. Charlotte Crawford Watkins died in 1997 and is buried at New Haven’s Evergreen Cemetery.

"The Satires of Edward Young." PhD diss., Yale University, 1937.

“A Stranger and Afraid,” The Journal of Negro Education 23, no. 2 (1954).

"Browning's 'Men and Women' and the Spasmodic School," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57, no. 1 (1958).

"By Self Enmeshed," The Journal of Negro Education 27, no. 2 (1958).

"The Leopard," The Journal of Negro Education 27, no. 4 (1958).

"Browning's 'Fame Within These Four Years'," The Modern Language Review 53, no. 4 (1958).

"The 'Abstruser Themes' of Browning's Fifine at athe Fair," PMLA 74, no. 4 (1959).

"Browning's 'Red Cotton Night-Cap Country' and Carlyle," Victorian Studies 7, no. 4 (1964).

"Browning as a Christian Poet," The Christian Scholar 48, no. 4 (1965).