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(1871–1922) Gertrude Buck was born on July 14, 1871 in Michigan where she lived for the first half of her life. She was among a new generation of privileged white women who were able to attend college. Buck received three degrees from the [[University of Michigan]], her bachelor’s at age 13, master’s at age 24, and doctorate in rhetoric at age 27. After receiving her doctorate, Buck went on to teach English and Rhetoric at [[Vassar College]] in New York for about 25 years.<ref>[http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/gertrude-buck%20.html]</ref> While there, she was active not only in teaching, but in administration duties and community social issues as well.
She lived in [[Poughkeepsie, New York|Poughkeepsie]] with colleague and lover Laura Wylie and they even thought about adopting a child, but they never did.<ref>{{cite book|last=Donawerth|first=Jane|title=Rhetorical Theory by Women Before 1900|year=2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|location=Lanham, MD|pages=271}}</ref> Buck and Wylie took to relevant issues of the community with their membership in the [[Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn)|Equal Suffrage League]] of Poughkeepsie and at the Women's City and County Club. Buck herself was a member of the [[Socialist Party of New York]]. She also founded the Poughkeepsie Community Theater as a way to encourage collaboration between social classes.<ref>[http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/gertrude-buck%20.html]</ref> Her textbooks were written for female students and encouraged them in learning and in the participation of politics.<ref>{{Cite book
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