More than Lore : Reminiscences of Marion Talbot / Marion Talbot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbot, Marion, 1858-1948, Author.

Contributor:

Gray, Hanna Holborn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talbot, Marion, 1858-1948.

Talbot, Marion.

University of Chicago--History.

University of Chicago.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

Enlarged edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms." In a time when many still scoffed at educating women, the university was firmly co-ed from the very start. One of its first hires was Marion Talbot. Ready for the adventure of a lifetime, she set her sights on Chicago at a time when the city was still considered all but the Wild West. Talbot eventually became the University of Chicago's first Dean of Women, influencing a generation of female students. Originally published in 1936, More than Lore is a unique firsthand account of the early days of the university, capturing the excitement and travails of life on an academic frontier. Talbot shares gossip from the faculty lounge, relays student antics in the dorms, and tells stories from the living rooms of Hyde Park. It's also a fascinating look at life as an early twentieth-century college woman, with scandals over improper party invitations and underground sororities, petitions calling for more female professors, and campaigns to have students be known as "university women" instead of "college girls." With Talbot as our guide, we reenter a lost world where simply to be a woman was to be a pioneer and where the foundations of the modern undergrad experience were being established.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

More than Lore

Chapter One. The Trek

Chapter Two. Laying Foundations

Chapter Three. Amenities

Chapter Four. Social Life and Mrs. Grundy

Chapter Five. Kindred Spirits

Chapter Six. New Homes for Old

Chapter Seven. The Weaker Sex

Chapter Eight. Forward Steps

Chapter Nine. The Dean of Women

Chapter Ten. The King of France

Chapter Eleven. A Dream Come True

Chapter Twelve. The Great War

Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226643793

0226643794

9780226346793

022634679X

OCLC:

935258877