Women -- Education -- Massachusetts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Academies and seminaries collection
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 31
Abstract
The Academies and Seminaries Collection brings together a variety of sources relating to private schools (chiefly for girls or women) in the United States (and one in Canada) which were established in the nineteenth century, many of them modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary or otherwise following the recommendations of its founder, Mary Lyon. Materials date from 1810 to 1999 and include correspondence, reports, catalogues, circulars, brochures, articles, historical sketches, notes,...
Dates:
1810 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1930
Emily Dickinson collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0716
Abstract
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, 1830-1886; Poet. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary student, 1847-1848. The collection chiefly consists of newspaper clippings, articles, books and published and unpublished papers concerning Dickinson's life and work. Also includes a letter that she wrote while at Mount Holyoke, collections of her poems, and documents relating to the Emily Dickinson International Society, a postage stamp issued in her honor, and films, music, novels, plays and poems about her.
Dates:
1847- (bulk 1924-)
