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Frances Willard; Lydia Jones Trowbridge; Women's EducationABAA

Women's Suffrage and Education Lydia Jones Trowbridge's Frances Willard of Evanston First Edition 1938

1938réf. 177691938. Trowbridge Lydia Jones. Frances Willard of Evanston 1938 interprets the life of educator temperance leader and suffrage advocate Frances E. Willard for a generation encountering her legacy four decades after her death. Following Willard from childhood through her education reform career death and commemoration Trowbridge emphasizes the development of the political and religious convictions that eventually placed Willard at the head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Willard became national WCTU president in 1879 and remained in office until 1898; under her leadership the organization expanded its work beyond temperance to include woman suffrage educational reform labor concerns and other forms of women's civic activism. Her association with Evanston is particularly important to the book's framing: Willard lived and worked there served as president of the Evanston College for Ladies and later dean of women at Northwestern and developed many of the educational and reform ideas that shaped her later national work. Trowbridge Lydia Jones. Frances Willard of Evanston. Chicago and New York: Willet Clark & Company 1938. First edition. English. 209 pages with full-page photographic illustrations. One volume bound in original blue cloth boards with no dust jacket. The illustrations include a photograph of Willard's memorial statue in Washington D.C. together with three photographs identified as deriving from Willard's personal collection. The biography proceeds from her infancy through her death and subsequent memorialization concentrating on her formation as an educator organizer suffrage supporter and political strategist. Trowbridge presents Willard's temperance and suffrage commitments as interconnected an interpretation consistent with Willard's broad reform philosophy: during her early WCTU career she worked to extend the organization's concerns to woman suffrage women's rights education and labor reform while her later leadership encouraged women to employ organization and political pressure alongside moral persuasion. Published in 1938 the biography is also useful as evidence of how Willard was commemorated after both national Prohibition and woman suffrage had become constitutional realities and after Prohibition had already been repealed. Its celebratory treatment can be read alongside subsequent scholarship addressing limitations within Willard's politics particularly her conflict with African American journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. In 1894 and 1895 Wells publicly challenged racist statements Willard had made in an 1890 interview and pressured her and the WCTU over their response to lynching producing an international controversy that complicates purely commemorative accounts of Willard's reform leadership. Front and rear boards toned and rubbed spine sunned with ownership inscription dated 1938 to front free endpaper scattered pencil annotations and no dust jacket; good condition. A useful first-edition secondary source for studying Frances Willard's career in women's education temperance and suffrage as well as the construction of her historical reputation during the interwar period. unknown books

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Frances Willard; Lydia Jones Trowbridge; Women's EducationBiblio.com

Women's Suffrage and Education Lydia Jones Trowbridge's Frances Willard of Evanston First Edition 1938

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 67,01 €

Women's Education illinoisABAA

Women's Sorority Life and Theatrical Traditions at MacMurray College Jacksonville Illinois 1920

1920réf. 179821920. Archive of eight silver gelatin photographs and one albumen portrait documenting the social life theatrical productions and group identity of a women's sorority at MacMurray College in Jacksonville Illinois circa 1920. Photographs range from 7" x 5" to 3.5" x 3.5" and bear the imprint of local photographers Vail & Vail along with negative numbers in the lower margins. The collection offers an unusually intimate view of collegiate women's culture during the early twentieth century. The centerpiece is a large formal group portrait showing dozens of sorority members assembled on the front steps of their residence behind a banner marked "1920." The women wear matching white dresses white stockings and shoes black neck bows and close-fitting caps presenting a carefully organized display of unity and institutional pride. In contrast several other photographs reveal a far more playful side of campus life. A series of images document what appears to be a student theatrical production or costume party with approximately twenty-seven participants dressed in an eclectic assortment of historical literary and gender-bending costumes. Some women appear in male attire while others wear period dress character outfits and theatrical makeup. One participant holds a sign reading "The Cat That Walked Alone" likely referencing Rudyard Kipling's well-known story. Additional photographs show staged scenes rehearsals and informal gatherings capturing moments of humor friendship and performance. Three photographs bear handwritten identifications on the verso. One small portrait depicting a young woman standing alone outdoors is captioned "Pieface" beneath the image suggesting a nickname used within the sorority circle. One photograph has a clipped corner; otherwise the archive remains in very good condition. Throughout the archive the subjects display a striking range of expressions and poses. While some photographs maintain the expected formality of the era others capture candid interactions as women laugh whisper mug for the camera and engage with one another in ways seldom preserved in official college photography. Together the images document both the public and private dimensions of sorority life during a period when women's colleges and campus organizations played a central role in social and intellectual development. MacMurray College founded in 1846 and operating until 2020 was one of the Midwest's longstanding women's educational institutions. These photographs provide a vivid record of the camaraderie ritual and theatrical creativity that characterized student life there in the years immediately following World War I. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis385,00 $US≈ 343,97 €

Women's Education illinoisBiblio.com

Women's Sorority Life and Theatrical Traditions at MacMurray College Jacksonville Illinois 1920

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis385,00 $US≈ 343,97 €

Women's Education In 1818ABAA

Women's Religious Organizing in Connecticut Female Education Society of New Haven Annual Report 1818

1818réf. 162011818. Education Society of Connecticut and Female Education Society of New Haven. The Second Annual Report of the Education Society of Connecticut; and of the Female Education Society of New-Haven 1818 documents women's organized participation in financing and supplying the education of young men preparing for the Protestant ministry in early nineteenth-century Connecticut. Despite its name the Female Education Society did not exist to educate women: women founded the New Haven organization in 1815 to support indigent male students pursuing ministerial education complementing the financial assistance supplied by the Education Society of Connecticut. Historical accounts record that the women's society provided clothing for students receiving educational aid and drew support from female auxiliary organizations elsewhere in Connecticut. Its annual report therefore records an early organized avenue through which women raised money administered charitable resources and participated in the institutional support of higher and theological education. Education Society of Connecticut and Female Education Society of New Haven. The Second Annual Report of the Education Society of Connecticut; and of the Female Education Society of New-Haven. New Haven: Printed by Nathan Whiting 1818. 15 pages 9 x 6 inches in original paper wrappers gently bound at the center left edge. The contents include the "Constitution of the Charitable Society of Connecticut for the Education of Indigent Pious Men for the Ministry of the Gospel" treasury and committee reports the constitution and report of the Female Education Society its treasurer's report and an appeal "To the friends of the cause which the education societies are aiming to promote." The stated purpose was to furnish financial assistance to "young men of piety and promising talents" preparing for religious study at Yale College. The Female Education Society supplied a parallel structure through which women contributed material and financial support; by September 1816 it reportedly counted 182 women as members and had received both money and clothing for assisted students. The report dates from a period when voluntary religious associations were expanding the means by which students without sufficient personal resources could prepare for the ministry. The Female Education Society is particularly notable for the organizational role assumed by women: although the educational beneficiaries were men women collected funds and clothing and established auxiliary networks in support of their schooling. The report is recorded as Shaw & Shoemaker 43583 and survives in the Early American Imprints series; current bibliographic records confirm institutional copies but the supplied claim of only two American institutional holdings could not be independently verified and is therefore omitted. Pages browned with small edge chips and creases scattered foxing and minor liquid staining not affecting the text; good condition. An early printed record of women's voluntary association work directed toward educational and religious philanthropy in Connecticut. unknown books