in classics at Vanderbilt University in 1944 with a thesis titled A Study in Roman Criminal Law, which was a translation of Book IX of the Theodosian Code.
[4] On December 1945, at the age of 35, Brown married her advisor, Clyde Pharr, and became his research assistant.
"[8] Mary accompanied Clyde Pharr to the University of Texas, Austin in 1950 when he accepted the position of Visiting Professor of Classics there.
[9] They both continued to work on the Theodosian Code translation, which finally was published by the Princeton University Press in 1952.
However, when Mary died on December 24, 1972, and Clyde Pharr passed away one week after,[11] that project remained incomplete.