The Education of American Girls, Considered in a series of essays
Contents: Education of American Girls by Anna C. Brackett; A Mother's Thought by Edna D. Cheney; The Other Side by Caroline H. Dall; Effects of Mental Growth by Lucinda H. Stone; Girls and Women in England and America by Mary E. Beedy; Mental Action and Physical Health by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D.; Michigan University by Sarah Dix Hamlin; Mount Holyoke Seminary by Mary O. Nutting; Oberlin College by Adelia A.F. Johnston; Vassar College by Alida C. Avery, M.D.; Antioch College by Alida C. Avery, M.D. Letter from a German Woman by Mrs. Ogden N. Rood; and, Brackett’s Review (see: takedown) of Sex in Education. Green cloth 8vo, 401pp + (6) publisher’s ads. Good with bubbling to the cloth, primarily the upper rear board. Light rubbing and bumping, gentle age toning. Bookplate of editor and publisher Chancy R. Barns to pastedown; gift inscription from St. Louis, 1875: “To an American Girl on her 37th birthday, from an American Boy who loves her.” The remnants of gilt on the upper cover may ha