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The northern education of two southern women in postbellum America; When sisters Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, daughters of a prominent Charleston, South Carolina, mercantile family, left their childhood home in the 1880s to attend Vassar College in New York, they entered a world that challenged their beliefs about women and society. First Mary and then Louisa pursued degrees at one of the most rigorous and progressive women's colleges in the country. In a stream of letters home, the sisters chronicled the opportunities and ideals they encountered. Their mother, alarmed by such influences, replied with gentle yet firm counsel on the proper responses of a southern lady. Intimate and searching, these letters reveal the struggle of two young women to resolve conventional southern expectations of women's roles with their interest in women's activism. Their letters also illuminate the tension between progress and tradition that characterized the New South. Particularly interesting because both mother and daughters go far beyond a recitation of their daily routines and health, the correspondence includes thoughtful discussions of society and manners, family and friendship, literature and
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JOAN MARIE JOHNSON holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, and is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago. As the recipient of a Spencer Foundation research grant, she is conducting further research on the higher education of Southern women. She has also published articles on Southern women, race, gender, and reform. Johnson lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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- PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1570034435
- ISBN 13 9781570034435
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
- EditorJohnson Joan Marie
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