Margaret Rickert

Margaret Rickert (May 5, 1888 – 1973) was an American art historian and World War II codebreaker.

In 1954, she became the first American and first woman to author a volume in the original series of the Pelican History of Art with her title, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages.

[1] She was the sister of art historian Edith Rickert.

Her dissertation was on the reconstruction of an English Carmelite missal from a scrapbook housed in the British Museum.

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