Author: Narka Nelson
Publisher:
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Category : Oxford (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Jacqueline Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439642737
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Western Female Seminary, the first daughter institution of Mount Holyoke College, opened its doors in 1855 as a Christian institution. The seminary, which became Western College for Women, was founded on the Mt. Holyoke plan, with a strong emphasis on academics. Many of its graduates in the 19th century served as home and foreign missionaries, and by the 20th century, young women from many foreign countries attended Western. In the 1950s, the curriculum was expanded to include a strong international emphasis. Western was the first college in the country to have an artist-in-residence, when composer Edgar Stillman Kelley was invited to live on campus. Western attracted national attention when it hosted civil rights training for Freedom Summer 1964. In the 1970s, independent study programs were developed, and the college became coeducational. With its diverse architecture and the early emphasis on landscaping on its rolling campus, the college was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Author: Narka Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Author: William Darnall Mac Clintock
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Western Female Seminary
Publisher:
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Category : Mount Holyoke College
Languages : en
Pages :

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Notebooks, catalogs, publications, clippings, photographs, of Western Female Seminary, later named Western College for Women. Includes manuscript journals of early years, 1863, 1877-1880.

Author: Western College for Women
Publisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: James A. Hodges
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387637
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Because of its history of westward expansion and its diverse population, Ohio is home to many independent institutions of higher education. This text comprises essays which relate the circumstances of the foundation of 40 such institutions and the history of each since its inception.

Author: Sophia Smith Collection
Publisher:
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Category : Sophia Smith Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Lynn E. Niedermeier
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813193761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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In 1907, author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856–1935) published Aunt Jane of Kentucky, a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor of its elderly narrator, Aunt Jane. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity, reaching an estimated one million readers in her lifetime, and placed Hall in the front ranks of "local color" fiction writers of her time. Eliza Calvert Hall's life and work unfolded during a time of restlessness and change for American women. Born Eliza "Lida" Calvert in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Hall experienced the upheaval of both the Civil War and family scandal. Forced to help support her mother and four siblings by teaching school, she became a published poet, adopting her grandmother's name, Hall, as her pseudonym. At twenty-nine, she married William A. Obenchain, and in the space of eight years gave birth to four children. As Hall struggled to balance her writing career with the duties of a nineteenth-century wife and mother, suffragist Laura Clay was lobbying for every woman's right to vote. Hall joined the battle, writing fearlessly in support of suffrage and equality. While her passionate essays served as a direct appeal for this cause, her creative writing also carried a feminist spirit, celebrating the strength, humor, love, and art of the common woman. In Eliza Calvert Hal: Kentucky Author and Suffragistl, Lynn E. Niedermeier tells the story of this remarkable Kentuckian for the first time. Hall's challenge was to balance the artist's creative ambitions with the crusader's passion for achieving the goal of political equality for American women. Her successes did not stem from privilege or leisure; although she was an acclaimed writer, Hall was an ordinary woman, a wife and mother of moderate economic means. Through the power of her words, she challenged others to match her courage, independence, intellectual energy, and loyalty to her sex.

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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