| Description |
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 833 |
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Women's history and culture ; v. 8 |
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Women's history and culture ; 8.
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Garland reference library of social science ; v. 833.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Women teachers in New England -- Teaching in Salem, Massachusetts, 1830s-1860s : Mary Lakeman Shepard and Mary Jane Fitz / Madelyn Holmes -- Student and teacher at the first state normal school in the United States : Electa Lincoln Walton (1824-1908) / Beverly J. Weiss -- Teacher and principal at the first state normal school : Ellen Hyde (1838-1926) / Beverly J. Weiss -- Massachusetts normalites migrate West -- Teaching in the midwest : Catherine Tilden Avery |
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(1844-1911) / Beverly J. Weiss -- Teaching in normal schools : Lelia E. Patridge (1844-1920) / Beverly J. Weiss -- Teaching on the East and West Coasts -- Rural schoolteachers, 1870s-1940s : Josephine Newhall and Gene Bond / Madelyn Holmes -- Twentieth-century urban schoolteachers, 1920s-1960s : Mary O'Neill Mulcahy and Lucy Arline Jenson / Madelyn Holmes -- Teaching in segregated schools in the South -- An African American teacher in Washington, D.C. : Marion P. Shadd |
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(1856-1943) / Beverly J. Weiss -- A white teacher in Alexandria, Virginia : Cora Kelly (1868-1953) / Madelyn Holmes -- Conclusion : In praise of teachers, past and present. |
| Subject |
Women teachers -- United States -- Biography.
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Public schools -- United States -- History.
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Women teachers -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| Indexed Term |
Teachers Women History |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Weiss, Beverly J.
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| Added Title |
Lives of women public school teachers |
| ISBN |
0815308388 (acid-free paper) |
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