Lot of 3 items related to women in college. 1861-1919. Includes page from Ladies Home Journal and Harper's Weekly. Items measure aprox 11 x 16 inches. Essay from the Ladies Home Journal December 1919 titled “Without Benefit of College” by Esther Everett Lape reads in part, “Have you ever read.....
Manuscript friendship album compiled for a young woman identified as Eliza, containing poetry, essays, and inscriptions dated principally 1827 in New York, documenting the literary culture and social practices associated with women’s education in the Early Republic period. The album provides evidence of the handwritten exchange culture that flourished among.....
Women’s education materials, 1813–1926, document the lived experience of female schooling across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including seminary training, scientific study, and political awareness prior to national suffrage. The grouping places early republic religious education alongside mid-nineteenth-century academic instruction and late nineteenth-century political consciousness, concluding with a twentieth-century.....
