Rebecca Richardson Joslin (March 20, 1846 – August 30, 1934) was an American writer, lecturer, benefactor, and clubwoman.
[2] She was educated in Boston public grammar and high schools; special student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.
The Castilian Club Essays, illustrated and bound into volumes, were deposited in the Boston Public Library.
She was the author of several essays including: "Essays on Early Years of Charles V. in Spain"; "War of the Comuneros"; "Philip of Anjou and the Archduke Charles", "Rival Claimants to the Spanish Throne"; "Queen Marie of Savoy, and the Princess des Ursins" (the Camarera Mayor); "French Influence in Spain"; "Moratin the Elder"; "The Club of the Fonda de San Sebastian"; "Iriarte and His Fables"; "Italian Literature in the Time of Charles III.
Her past-time activities included gymnastics, boating, painting, the theatre, the opera, and foreign travel.
[1] Rebecca Richardson Joslin died at the Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, August 30, 1934.
[8] The Rebecca Richardson Joslin Fund is credited for the donation of the Tang dynasty era, 680–81 A.D., "Guardian Lion" (唐龍門浮雕石獅子) of Luoyang, Henan Province, China, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.