Woman's work in America

by Unknown

TIFFANY, REV.

Life of Dorothea Dix. Boston, 1889.

WILLARD, FRANCES E.

Autobiography.

WOLLSTONECRAFT

The Rights of Women. Boston, 1890.

INDEX.

• Abolitionists, character of, [261].
  • See Garrison, Wm. Lloyd
• Adams, Abigail, [257];
  • quoted, [5], [15];
  • on intellectual opportunities for girls in her time, [13];
  • rare abilities of, [15]
• Adams, Charles F., quoted on co-education, [26]
• Adams, Hannah, [108]
• Adamson, Sarah, [158]
• Affiliated college, the, [41], note, [42], note.
  • See Collegiate instruction for women; Evelyn College; Barnard College
• Agricultural College Act, the, [57]
• Albert Lea College, [64], note
• Alcott, Abby May, [265]
• Alcott, Louisa M., [123]
• American Revolution, woman in, [255]
• Angell, President, quoted on co-education, [78]
• Anthony, Susan B., [132], [264], [269], [397]
• Antioch College, [38], [70]
• Anti-Slavery women, Work of, [392]
• Aspasia, [249]
• Associations:
  • Co-operative Building, of Boston, [343]
  • New York Moral Reform, [359]
  • Society of Ethical Culture, Relief Works of, [357], note
  • Visiting Nurse Society, [357]
• Astell, Mary, [253]
• Avila, Saint, and the educated woman of to-day, [53]
• Bar Associations, woman’s international, [243]
• Barbauld, Mrs., quoted on education of women, [28]
• Barnard College, [40], note, [41], note;
  • history of, [44]
• Barney, Susan Hammond, [365];
  • chapter by, [359]
• Bartlett, President, quoted on co-education, [26]
• Barton, Clara, [266];
  • chapter by, [411];
  • life of, [411], note
• Bascom, John, quoted on co-education, [80]
• Beecher, Henry Ward, and woman suffrage, [265]
• Bittenbender, Ada M., chapter by, [218]
• Blackwell, Rev. Antoinette Brown, [130], [264], [267];
  • first woman ordained, [212], note
• Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, [147], [149], [150], [151], [156], [170], [172], [266], [348];
  • first woman of modern times to receive medical diploma, [152]
• Blackwell, Emily, [149], [152], [154], [156], [170], [172]
• Bologna, University of, admission of women to, [253];
  • women in, [13]
• Bonney, Mary L., [377], [385]
• Boone, Richard G., quoted, [13]
• Booth, Mary L., [132]
• Boston Athenæum open to women, [27]
• Boston Lyceum open to women, [27]
• Boston University, [39]
• Botta, Anna Lynch, [124]
• Bowles, Rev. Ada C., chapter by, [206]
• Bradstreet, Anne, [108]
• Bradwell, Myra, [222]
• Brent, Margaret, [220]
• Brooks, Rev. Charles T., [37]
• Brooks, Maria Gowen, [111]
• Bryn Mawr College, [49]
• Bryn Mawr Preparatory School, the, [103]
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson, [121]
• Call, Emma, [188]
• Campbell, Helen, [318];
  • quoted, [320]
• Cary, Alice, [124]
• Channing, Rev. William H., and woman suffrage, [265]
• Chapman, Maria Weston, [398]
• Charity, necessity for discrimination, [333];
  • old and new methods compared, [334]
• Cheney, Ednah Dow, [265];
  • chapter by, [346]
• Child, Lydia Maria, [111], [128], [262], [397]
• Children’s Aid Society, the, of Boston, [332];
  • of Pennsylvania, [325]
• Christian Association, Young Women’s, [290], [337]
• Cincinnati Wesleyan Woman’s College, the, [62]
• Civilization, three curses on, [403]
• Civil War, effect of, [265];
  • influence on education in South, [93];
  • on the wage-worker, [285]
• Cleveland, Emmeline, [157], [162]
• Clubs, girl’s, [339].
  • See Associations; Unions
• Co-education, arguments against, [78];
  • at Columbian University, [96];
  • at Cornell University, [79];
  • at Massachusetts Inst. Technology, [52];
  • at University of Michigan, [78];
  • at Northwestern University, [80];
  • at University of Mississippi, [96];
  • at University of Wisconsin, [80];
  • at Tulane University, [97];
  • at Vanderbilt University, [98];
  • conditions of pioneer life favorable to, [71];
  • in graduate study, [176], note;
  • in medical schools, [173];
  • in medicine, [176];
  • in West, [61], [65];
  • social effects and tendencies of, [81];
  • number of students in Southern colleges, [98]
• College, the, influence of, in community, [60]
• College degrees and State legislatures, [41], note
• College faculties, absence of women in, [87]
• College settlement, [340].
  • See Neighborhood Guild
• Colleges for women, function of, [64];
  • in the South, [101];
  • in the West, [61]
• Collegiate Alumnæ, Association of, standard adopted by, [83], [94]
• Collegiate Instruction for Women, Society for, [39], [40], note, [41], note
• Columbia College, and education of women, [41];
  • chartered, [260], note
• Columbian University, [95]
• Comstock, Elizabeth, [363]
• Cone, Helen Gray, chapter by, [107]
• Cooke, Rose Terry, [124]
• Co-operation among women, value of, [295]
• Co-operative industries, [300]
• Cooper Institute, [288]
• Cornell University, [47]
• Corporations, women in, [251]
• Corson, Dr. Hiram, [178]
• Cotton-gin, influence of, [280];
  • invention of, [279]
• County Medical Society of Philadelphia, [177]
• Craddock, Charles Egbert. See Murfree, Miss
• Crandall, Prudence, [392]
• Craper, Margaret, [128]
• Criminals, care of, [359]
• Croly, Mrs. D. G., [131]
• Cummings, Joseph, quoted on co-education, [80]
• Dame-school, the, [7]
• Davis, Rebecca Harding, [120]
• Dawes, Hon. H. L., [387]
• Deaconesses, order of, [357], note
• Deland, Margaret, [119]
• Dickinson, Anna, [266], [397]
• Dickinson, Mary Lowe, [385]
• Dickinson, Susan E., chapter by, [128]
• Dimock, Susan, [166]
• Dix, Dorothea, [193], [324], [362]
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, [123], [137]
• Eastman, Mary F., chapter by, [3]
• Education, prime motive to the encouragement of, in America, [5];
  • in West, relation of government to, [55]
• Education, Woman in, Daniel Defoe on, [253];
  • in the Eastern States, [3];
  • in the Southern States, [89];
  • in the Western States, [52]
• Elective system of education, influence on co-education, [76]
• Eliot, President, quoted on co-education, [26]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [253]
• Elizabethan era, woman in, [254]
• Ellet, Elizabeth F., [128]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted on education of women, [30];
  • and woman suffrage, [264]
• Evelyn College, [41], note
• Everett, Prof. William, quoted on co-education, [26]
• Exchanges, woman’s, of New York, [295]
• Factory, the influence of, [280];
  • laws, disregard of, [316]
• Farmers’ Alliance, the, [300], note
• Fletcher, Alice C., [375]
• Foley, Margaret, [283]
• Foltz, Clara S., [237]
• Foote, Mary Hallock, [121]
• Foster, Abby Kelly, [396]
• Foster, Hannah Webster, [109]
• Franklin, Christine Ladd, chapter by, [89]
• Free schools, admission of girls to, [5];
  • first in United States, [12];
  • founding of the system, [5];
  • not originated in America, [12];
• French and Indian wars, woman in, [255]
• Fry, Elizabeth, [359], [363]
• Fuller, Margaret. See Ossoli
• Gage, Mrs. Frances D., [130]
• Garrison, Helen E., [398]
• Garrison, William Lloyd, [261], [263], [269]
• Geneva, Treaty of, code, [416];
  • nations adopting, list of, [417]
• Gilbert, Linda, [363]
• Gilder, Jeannette L., [137]
• Goodale, Elaine, quoted, [390]
• Goodell, R. Lavinia, [226], [232]
• Gordon, Laura de Force, [239]
• Granger Association of Western Farmers, [300]
• Green, Mrs. Nathaniel, the inventor of cotton-gin, [280]
• Greenwood, Grace, [129]
• Gregory, Samuel, [142]
• Grew, Mary, [397]
• Grey, Lady Jane, quoted, [6]
• Grimké sisters, [128], [262], [392]
• Gymnasiums. See Physical Culture
• Hamilton, Gail, [286]
• Hale, Sarah Josepha, [128]
• Hall, Mary, [229]
• Harvard Annex, the. See Collegiate Instruction for Women
• Harvard College, founding of, [4], [260], note
• Harvard Medical School, [185]
• Heck, Barbara, [208], [209]
• H. H. See Jackson, Helen Hunt
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, [269];
  • and woman suffrage, [265]
• Higher education, defects of, in West, [83];
  • for women in the South, [93]
• Homes for working women, [293]
• Homes for unfortunates, [328]
• Hopper, Isaac T., Home, [361]
• Hospitals, admission of women students to, [189], [190], note;
  • admission of women physicians to, [191], [192], [353];
  • admitting women students, list of, [348];
  • earliest known, [346];
  • Mt. Sinai, first to appoint woman physician, [190];
  • New England, [156], [165], [354];
  • for women, Chicago, [167];
  • first in world, [153];
  • Minneapolis, [168];
  • New York Infirmary, [153];
  • Philadelphia, [165];
  • San Francisco, [168]
• Howard, Blanche Willis, [121]
• Howard, Caroline, [110]
• Howard, Grace, [389]
• Howe, Elias, inventor of the sewing-machine, [285]
• Howe, Julia Ward, [124], [132], [215], [269];
  • introduction by, [1]
• Hunt, Harriet K., [147], [148]
• Huntingdon, Countess of, [209]
• Hutchinson, Anne, [348];
  • begins work of women in Christian ministry, [206]
• Huxley, quoted on education, [38]
• “Hypatia,” [249]
• Indian Association, national, [384]
• Indian petition, [380]
• Indian Treaty-keeping and Protective Association, organization of, [381]
• Indiana, University of, admission of women to, [72]
• Indians, care of, [373]
• Industrial education in the South, [104];
  • New York association, [336]
• Industrial schools for girls, Dorchester, Mass., [331];
  • the Wilson, [288].
  • See Cooper Institute
• Industry, woman in, [276];
  • arguments against, [287];
  • average weekly earnings of, in cities, [312];
  • condition of, [303];
  • state interference in condition of wage-earners, [315];
  • state legislation for protection of, [319]
• Insane asylums, admission of women physicians to, [193], [194];
  • women physicians in, [195], [351]
• Inventive faculty, the, a gift of the American woman, [279]
• Italy, women in, [13]
• Jackson, Helen Hunt, [121], [374]
• Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam, [191];
  • chapter by, [139];
  • first woman admitted to the Paris École de Médecine, [184], note
• Johnson, Mrs. E. C., [364]
• Joshee, Dr. Amandibai, [353]
• Journal, first medical, [141], note
• Journalism, woman in, [128]
• Jurors, women as, [244]
• Kempin, Dr. Emile, [234]
• Kepley, Ada H., first woman graduate of law school, [233]
• Kilgore, Carrie Burnham, [235]
• Kindergarten system, the history of, in America, [335]
• Knights of Labor, the, women in, [299]
• Labor, a respect for, the foundation of democracy, [1]
• Lamb, Martha J., [17]
• Larcom, Lucy, [124], [283]
• Latin School for Girls, the, [23];
  • opening of, [27]
• Law, woman in, [218];
  • admission to Supreme Court, [225];
  • and the Roman Forum, [218];
  • in England, [219];
  • influence at bar, [243]
• Law schools for women, admission to, [233], [238]
• Lazarus, Emma, [125]
• Lee, Ann, [208]
• Leicester Academy, first for girls in New England, [18]
• Literature, woman in, [107]
• Livermore, Mary A., [132], [269];
  • chapter by, [245]
• Lockwood, Belva Ann, [224], [239]
• London University, women admitted to medical school, [148], note
• Longevity, of college graduates, statistics of, [35]
• Lowell, Josephine Shaw, [365];
  • chapter by, [323]
• Lowell, Maria White, [124]
• Lowell Mills, the, [281];
  • contrasted with factories in large cities, [283]
• Lutes, Annie Cronise, [236]
• Luther. See Reformation
• Lyon, Mary, a pupil of Emerson, [30];
  • biographical sketch of, [34]
• Man-midwifery, crusade against, [142]
• Mann, Horace, and co-education, [38], [70];
  • and normal schools, [37]
• Mansfield, Arabella A., first woman to obtain admission to the bar, [221]
• Martia, Queen of London, [250]
• Martineau, Harriet, [29], [268]
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [52]
• McNutt, Dr. Sarah, [191]
• Medical Education Society, Female, [151]
• Medical schools, first to admit women, [145];
  • co-education in, See Co-education
• Medical schools for women:
  • Baltimore, [175]
  • Boston University, [146]
  • Buffalo, [175]
  • Chicago, [173]
  • Cooper, [175]
  • Johns Hopkins, [176]
  • New York, [170]
  • Pennsylvania, [146]
  • Philadelphia, [157]
  • Syracuse University, [175]
  • University of Michigan, [173]
• Medical Society, Philadelphia County, passes resolutions of excommunication, [162]
• Medicine, woman in, [139];
  • annual incomes, [200];
  • capacity for surgery, [202];
  • census of 1880, number registered, [197];
  • characteristics of, [201].
  • See Surgery, woman in, Hospitals, Insane asylums
• Methodism, founder of American. See Heck, Barbara
• Methodists, progressiveness of, in education, [61]
• Methodist University, the, [99]
• Meyer, Annie Nathan, [44]
• Midwifery, exclusive control of, by women, [140];
  • relation of men to, [140]
• Ministry, woman in, [206];
  • admission to theological schools, [212], [214], [215], [217];
  • ministerial conference, [215];
  • opening of Hartford Theological Seminary, [212];
  • order of deaconesses, [212];
  • order of sisterhoods, [213];
  • in the primitive Church, [216];
  • recognition in Methodist Episcopal Church, [210],
    • in Baptist Church, [211],
    • in German Lutheran Church, [212],
    • in Methodism, [209],
    • in Roman Catholic Church, [208],
    • in Universalist Church, [214],
    • in Presbyterian Church, [211].
  • See Oberlin College
• Mississippi, University of, [95]
• Missouri, University of, [75]
• Mitchell, Prof. Maria, [45], [91], note
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, quoted, [6]
• Moravian Brethren, the, found first private institution in America to give girls better advantages than common schools, [17];
  • and secondary education of girls, [92]
• More, Hannah, and female education, [29]
• Mott, Lucretia, [207], [262], [263], [264], [395]
• Moulton, Louise Chandler, [132]
• Mount Holyoke Seminary, [149];
  • founding of, [35]
• Murfree, Miss, [122]
• Nashville College for young Ladies, the, [100]
• Nationalism explained, [321]
• National Woman Suffrage Convention, the first, [264]
• Neighborhood Guild, the, [340]
• Nicholson, Mrs. E. J., [133]
• Nightingale, Florence, [347], [354]
• New York Infirmary. See Hospitals for women
• Normal schools, defect of, in West, [85];
  • history of system in America, [37];
  • importance of, [36];
  • in the South, [104];
  • primitive beginnings in West, [73]
• Northwestern University, [76]
• Nurses, and colored women in South, [358];
  • past and present contrasted, [354];
  • training schools for, [354];
  • training schools for, statistics of, [356]
• Oberlin College, [266]; admits women theological students, [212].
  • See Co-education
• Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, [114], [129];
  • work for prison reform, [361]
• Pacific Dispensary. See Hospitals for women
• Palmer, Alice Freeman, [47]
• Parish, Anne, [344]
• Parker, Theodore, and woman suffrage, [264]
• Peabody, Elizabeth, [335]
• Penn Charter School, the, [17]
• Pennsylvania, University of, admission of women to, [50]
• Penny, Virginia, [286]
• Perry, M. Fredrika, [233]
• Philanthropy—woman in, care of the criminal, [359];
  • care of the Indian, [373];
  • care of the sick, [346];
  • charity, [323];
  • difference between past and present methods, [293]
• Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, [119]
• Phelps, Mrs. Lincoln, [91]
• Phillips, Ann Green, [398]
• Phillips, Wendell, and woman suffrage, [265]
• Physical Culture, Normal Institute for, [38]
• Physicians, women, in State institutions, [351];
  • in insane asylums, [193]
• Police matrons, [367], [368]
• Porter, President, quoted on co-education, [26]
• Postmasters, women as, [230]
• Preparatory departments, connection with colleges deplored, [71]
• Press Association, Woman’s International, [133];
  • Woman’s National, [135]
• Prescott, Harriet, [118]
• Preston, Anne, [157], [163], [165]
• Prison Association, New York, [328], [360];
  • Rhode Island, [362]
• Prisons, reformatory at Sherburne, [351], [364];
  • reformatory for women and girls, [363]
• Professions, the keystone to the arch of woman’s liberty, [2]
• Public speaking by women, first in America, [393];
  • protests against, [394]
• Quakers, influence of, [207]
• Quincy, Josiah, quoted, [21]
• Quinton, Amelia Stone, [385];
  • chapter by, [373]
• Red Cross Society, American amendment to, [419];
  • not an order, [413];
  • Origin and Application of, [411]
• Reformation, influence of, [254]
• Ripon College, [59]
• Rhine, Alice Hyneman, chapter by, [276]
• Robinson, Lelia J., [228]
• Robinson, Mrs. H. H., [283]
• Rowson, Susanna, [109]
• Sanitary Commission, organization of, [166]
• Schools for girls, first grammar school, [9];
  • for Indians, [373]
• School suffrage, States conferring, [271]
• Secondary instruction in the South, [103]
• Sectarianism in the college, [59]
• Sedgwick, Catherine, [115]
• Semi-colleges, [94], [99]
• Sewall, Lucy, [166]
• Sewall, May Wright, [135];
  • chapter by, [52]
• Sewing-machine, the influence of, [285]
• Seymour, Mary F., [137]
• Shakers, essential doctrines of, [208]
• Sick, care of, [346]
• Sigourney, Lydia H., [110]
• Silk industry in America, [278]
• Smith College, [46]
• Smith, Hannah Whitall, quoted, [388]
• Smith, Sydney, quoted on education of women, [29]
• Socialism defined, [320], note
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, [132], [263], [269]
• State boards, women on, [324], [365]
• State Charities Aid Association, the, of New York, [324]
• State medical societies admitting women, summary of, [188];
  • of Massachusetts, admission of women to, [187];
  • of Philadelphia, admission of women to, [183]
• State recognition, value of, [173]
• State universities, argument for, [88];
  • origin in, [56];
  • democracy of, [56];
  • in West, table of, [57]
• State, Woman in the, [245]
• Stephens, Ann S., [128]
• Stevenson, Dr. Sarah Hackett, [183], [192]
• Stoddard, Mrs., [118]
• Stone, Lucy, [132], [264], [269], [397]
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [116], [397]
• Straw industry, the, [278]
• Stuarts, reign of, in England, and disrespect for womanly intelligence, [6]
• Sullivan, Margaret Buchanan, [134]
• Surgery, women in, list of operations performed by, [203].
  • See Medicine, woman in
• Swarthmore College, [50]
• Sweden, education in, [13]
• Swisshelm, Jane G., [129], [264]
• Syracuse University, [48]
• Teachers, first recognition of women, [11]
• Temperance Union, Woman’s Christian, [137], [270], [399];
  • and the public school, [402];
  • character of meetings, [401];
  • methods of organization, [402];
  • prison department of, [365]
• Terhune, Mrs., [120]
• Texas, University of, [95]
• Thompson, Mary H., [167], [174]
• Troy Female Seminary, [149];
  • founding of, [33]
• Tulane University, [95]
• Tyler, Moses Coit, quoted on co-education, [79]
• Unions: Illinois Woman’s Alliance, [343];
  • Protective Agency for Women and Children, of Chicago, [342];
  • Woman’s National Industrial, [137];
  • women’s educational and industrial, [339];
  • Working Woman’s Protective, [291]
• Unions, trades, influence on women workers, [303];
  • women in, [301]
• Universalist Church first to open theological schools to women, [214]
• University Education of Women, the, Massachusetts Society for, [25].
  • See Higher Education
• Vassar College, [45], [266]
• Virginia, University of, [95]
• Walter, Dr. Josephine, [190], [357], note
• Wanzer, Lucy, [175]
• Warren, Mrs. Mercy, [108], [256]
• Washington, George, quoted, [88]
• Wellesley College, [46]
• Wesley, Susanna, [208]
• Wesleyan Female College, the, [92]
• Western States and Territories, order of admission into Union, [55]
• Wheatley, Phillis, [108]
• White, Andrew D., quoted on co-education, [80]
• Wilkins, Mary, [120]
• Willard, Emma Hart, [91];
  • biographical sketch of, [30]
• Willard, Frances E., [270];
  • chapter by, [399]
• Willets, Mary, [184]
• William and Mary College, chartered, [260], note
• Willis, Rev. Olympia Brown, [214]
• Wisconsin, University of, [74]
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, [28], [150], [260]

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[1]. With the exception of the chapter on England, which is divided into three parts.