Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1864–1948) was the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania; she had previously attended Wellesley College and Oxford University. She wrote a number of books on theological topics, most of which were published in the early-1900s. Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and the first woman to graduate with a Ph.D in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Lindsay was married to Samuel McCune Lindsay, and they had three children. References 125 years of Women at Penn External links Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay papers at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 1864 births 1948 deaths American theologians University of Pennsylvania alumni Women Christian theologians