Chase Resources from Hollis Catalogue

Title : Woman's "true" profession : voices from the history of teaching / Nancy Hoffman.
Published : Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press ; New York : McGraw-Hill, c1981.

Description : xxiii, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series : Women's lives, women's work
Contents : Pioneering the education of young women : autobiography / Emma Hart Willard -- Teaching in the little red schoolhouse : a sketch / Lucia B. Downing -- Remedy for wrongs to women : address / Catherine Beecher -- Photo feature : the teacher "becomes" a woman -- "Civilizing" the West : letters from teachers on the frontier -- Preparing to teach : a normal school journal / Mary Swift -- The schoolmarm : a short story / Anna Fuller -- Missionary maidens : a sketch / Mary Clemmer Ames -- In spite of threats : selected letters on setting up new schools -- From northern home to southern dangers : autobiography / Maria S. Waterbury -- Photo feature : Missus come fur larn we! -- Sisters in the service : correspondence / Sarah Chase, Lucy Chase, and Julia Rutledge.
Hard work every day : a New England woman's diary in Dixie / Mary Ames -- A black teacher goes South : journal and essay / Charlotte L. Forten -- Photo feature : sisterhood of service -- Emancipations's primer : the Freedmen's book / Lydia Maria Child -- New rules for black and white : autobiography / Elizabeth Hyde Botume.
Notes : Includes index.
Notes : Bibliography: p. 315-319.
ISBN : 0912670932
091267072X (Feminist Press : pbk.)
0070204373 (McGraw-Hill : pbk.)
0091267072-X (Feminist Press : pbk.)
Subject : Women teachers -- United States -- History.
Keyword Subject : Education -- History.
Women teachers -- United States -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Authors : Hoffman, Nancy.
HOLLIS Number : 000411077