Oral history interview with Susanna E. Bedell, 1997

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-law

Scope and Contents

Childhood: family life, Hungarian traditions, rural life; education: Royal Hungarian Academy, BA Botany 1940 Vassar College, graduate studies 1940-1941 Columbia University, LLB/JD 1944 Columbia University, student life as a woman; decision to attend law school; adjusting to life in United States; disappearance and death of parents during World War II; experiences as a woman practicing law in 1940s

Subjects

• Bedell, Susanna E. 1918-2006--Interviews.
• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Davis, Evan A., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women lawyers--Interviews

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2002