Edith Frances Claflin (6 October 1875, Quincy, Massachusetts – 5 March 1953, New York City) was an American linguist, a noted scholar of Latin and Greek.
As a Garrett European Fellow from Bryn Mawr, she spent 1899–1900 at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
[2] She earned her PhD from Bryn Mawr in 1904, with a dissertation entitled, "The syntax of the Boetian dialect inscriptions," which was published by the Lord Baltimore Press in 1905.
She was an Instructor of Greek and Latin at the Prospect Hill School (Greenfield, Massachusetts) from 1901 to 1907; then head of the Classics Dept.
[4] She moved to New York City in 1936, when she was appointed lecturer in Greek and Latin at Barnard College, where she stayed until her retirement in 1945.