Vera Lee Brown Holmes (September 21, 1890 – November 19, 1980) was a Canadian-American historian.
[1] She later moved to Bryn Mawr College and became a 1914 M. Carey Thomas European Fellow,[1] before returning to McGill to work as a history lecturer from 1916 until 1920.
[2] After shelving plans a previous dissertation which had been delayed due to World War I, The Audiencia in Spanish America, after its associated existing research was destroyed in a 1917 fire and another work on the topic was published, she did another round of research on a different dissertation,[1] and during the 1920-1921 academic year, she traveled to London for research at the British Museum and Public Record Office.
[3] In 1922, the dissertation granted her a PhD at Bryn Mawr and was published as a book, Anglo-Spanish Relations in America in the Closing Years of the Colonial Era (1763–1774).
[2][1] After a brief stint as chairman of the Wilson College Department of History (1922–1923), she returned to Bryn Mawr to be the 1923-1924 Helene and Cecil Rubel Foundation Fellow.