Eddy taught hundreds of students in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, for which she obtained a charter in 1881.
She cited the case of an auto-theft ring in which she obtained the conviction of seven police officers.
In 2003, Simon & Schuster published her first memoir, "Living History," for which she obtained an advance of eight million dollars.
Prior to coming to Yale, she studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, from which she obtained an MA in the History of Religion.
Already a private poet, she also began writing and translating short pieces commercially before finding her feet as one of Britain's foremost translators of Danish, something with which she obtained considerable practical assistance from her husband.
Because his job did not provide health benefits, she has covered them both through a policy for the self-employed, which she obtained as the proprietor of a bridal and formal-wear store, the Purple Parasol.
Most of her information came from the KGB files in Moscow to which she obtained full access, remarking wryly that KGB files were not generally recognised as a source for architectural historians.
She was born in NYC, raised in Rock Hill, SC, and after graduating from National Cathedral School and Sweet Briar College, lived for many happy years in Atlanta, where she was especially proud of being Dean of the Department of English as a Second Language at Georgia State University, from which she obtained her Masters in English.
After graduating (1974) from the prestigious Holton-Arms girls' college-preparatory school in Bethesda, Maryland, she studied at the Law School of the University of Paris X-Nanterre, where she lectured after graduation before going on to specialize in labour law, in which she obtained a postgraduate diploma (DESS).
She called the head of the biology department at the college and applied for a part-time teaching position, which she obtained three weeks before classes started.
