By exploring the family culture, education, and ideology of the "select few," she accounts for the rise of the first generation of academic women in post-Civil War America. Drawing on unpublished diaries, journals, family letters, and autobiographies, on newspapers and magazines, and on official Wellesley College records, Patricia Palmieri re-creates and reinterprets the lives and careers of many of the fifty-three senior women professors of the college. This book is an engrossing narrative history of that first generation of Wellesley professors. The college was unique in its commitment to an exclusively female faculty and much of its intellectual fervor can be traced back to them. Since its origins in the late nineteenth century, Wellesley has had an impact on American history and women's history. One of the most influential women's colleges in the country, Wellesley has educated many illustrious women, from Katharine Lee Bates-author of America the Beautiful- to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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