Mindele had a distinguished career as a scholar of English literature and was a noted authority on John Milton. She received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, an M.A. in English literature from Radcliffe College, and a Ph.D. from Harvard where she concentrated on Milton’s Paradise Lost. She spent her academic career at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University where she became an Emeritus Fellow. Her many works on Milton’s poetry include this rather arcane book: Milton’s Punctuation and Changing English Usage 1582 – 1676.
Mindele was born in 1928. She died in 2010.
Note: Mindele (Black) Treip was the daughter of Bertha (Coodin) Black and granddaughter of Herschel.