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[Women] College Settlements Association - Second Annual Report of the College Settlements Association for the Year 1891

Title: Second Annual Report of the College Settlements Association for the Year 1891
Description: New York, Brown & Wilson, Printers, 1892. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 48 pp. [1]. 8vo. The College Settlements Association was formed in 1890, "to bring all college women within the scope of a common purpose and a common work" establishing branches in twelve colleges in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, such as Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Vassar, the Annex (Harvard). Vida Scudder, "recently returned from study with John Ruskin at Oxford and newly appointed to the faculty of Wellesley, was apparently the moving force in the group whose primary motivation seemed to be to break the restrictive bonds of gender and class. A very good copy with chips along the spine, wrappers browned along the edges, notice tipped in to title, contents clear.

Keywords: Women, , Americana, Women, education, Pamphlet

Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 38829

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