First Women's Education Movement. Old Dominion Institute Catalog, Richmond, VA- 1860-1861.

19 cent Women Education, Old Dominion Institute Catalog

Pamphlet

[First Women's Education Movement] Old Dominion Institute Catalog, 1860-181. Pamphlet/ Volume 12 of 17:Annual Announcement of the Old Dominion Institute Catalog, For The Year 1860-1861. Richmond, VA. Contemporary Note on the first blank page. The Catalog includes a description of the school, textbooks, mode of instruction, tuition and list of pupils of 1859-1860. At the time that this description is being written, no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.

Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial…When we shall have had our colleges, our professions, our trades, for a century, a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened, they filled up.

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