Millia Davenport
Not to be confused with Milla Davenport.
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 Davenport in 1920 |
Millia Crotty Davenport (1895–1992) was an American costumer, theater designer, and scholar, known for her 1948 work The Book of Costume.[1] The eldest daughter of biologists Charles and Gertrude Davenport, she married editor Arthur Harold Moss in her early twenties and for a time was editor and publisher of The Quill, a Greenwich Village literary magazine. In 1991 the Costume Society of America established the Millia Davenport Publication Award recognizing excellence in costume scholarship.[2]
References
- ↑ Alice M. Robinson; Vera Mowry Roberts; Milly S. Barranger (1989). Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. pp. 196–197. ISBN 978-0-313-27217-2.
- ↑ "Millia Davenport Publication Award". Costume Society of America. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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