The Power and Passion of M. Carey ThomasBest known as the second president and primary architect of Bryn Mawr College, M Carey Thomas was also a leader in the women's suffrage movement. This book captures the life and personality of this influential woman, and details her accomplishments as an educator and feminist and her relationships with women, her racism, and her anti-Semitism. |
Contents
I Could Not Catch Thee | 1 |
Aint Going to Be Sentimental | 14 |
We Want Scholars | 35 |
A Complete Convert to Coed | 54 |
If Everything Were Given Up and for Nothing | 72 |
The Desire of My Heart | 106 |
In My Way Not Thine Exactly | 125 |
Dr M C Thomas | 141 |
Shriveled Up and Parched and Dying | 263 |
To Have the Love of and to Love Two People | 276 |
A Great Blank Where There Used to Be Certainty | 295 |
To Spread the Fame of the College | 313 |
Soaring Eagle | 331 |
Women Preparing to Have Their Fling | 350 |
Le roi est mort vive le roi | 367 |
Woman with a Capital W | 388 |
Nous Autres | 164 |
When We Were All Young Together | 180 |
Content Not Lonely in the Passionate Land | 196 |
The Wee Bit of Practical Good | 223 |
Mammon for Righteousness | 246 |
A Knockdown Blow | 405 |
Really Almost Satisfied for the Moment | 420 |
The Flame of a Burnedout Candle | 438 |
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