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An American girl, and her four years in a boys' college / by Olive San Louie Anderson ; edited by Elisabeth Israels Perry and Jennifer Ann Price.
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- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Olive San Louie, 1842-1886.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women college students--Fiction.
- Women college students.
- Coeducation.
- College students--Fiction.
- College students.
- Coeducation--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Feminist fiction.
- Campus fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- The University of Michigan-one of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious public universities in the United States-admitted its first woman student in 1870. An American Girl, and Her FourYears in a Boys' College, written by one of the first woman graduates and published pseudonymously in 1878, describes what it was like to be a member of this tiny group of brave coeds. The story is told through the eyes of Wilhelmine (Will) Elliot, an untraditional girl who enrolls at the fictional University of Ortonville, a thinly disguised stand-in for the University of Michigan.
- Will's challenges mirror those of other women college students of the era, including the reactions of male faculty and students, relationships with other women students and with family and friends back home, and social attitudes toward the women's movement and liberal religious values. The editors' engaging introduction places the novel in its relevant historical and literary contexts, as do helpful annotations throughout the text.
- Contents:
- The bending of the twig
- How the majority impressed the minority
- Freshman experiences
- Sophomoric and other opinions on some important social topics
- Choice of a career
- Ortonville versus Vassar
- A call from the minister
- Heavy and light shading
- A possible result of co-education
- Another phase of the story
- End of the preparation
- beginning of the career.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1878. (under the pseudonym of Sola)
- "An annotated edition of An American girl, and her four years in a boys' college by SOLA (pseudonym of Olive San Louie Anderson)"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0472099167
- 0472069160
- OCLC:
- 60767014
- Publisher Number:
- 9780472099160
- 9780472069163
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