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

452Boston 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

453Dickinson, 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

454Howard, 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

455Martia, 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

456Parish, 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

457Stevenson, 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

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.

Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter.