The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women's Education in Missouri - Brossura

Wolferman, Kristie C.

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ISBN 10: 0826218059 ISBN 13: 9780826218056

Casa editrice: Univ of Missouri Pr, 2008

Riassunto

"Drawing on Mary and George Sibley's journals and letters, Wolferman brings to life one of Missouri's most remarkable women educators, the founder of Lindenwood University. Sibley's views regarding women's social and political roles, slavery, temperance,religion, and other topics reflect educational and social developments on the frontier and nationwide"--Provided by publisher.

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Kristie C. Wolferman is author of The Osage in Missouri and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City, both published by the University of Missouri Press. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and Pinehurst, North Carolina.

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Acknowledged as a significant figure in the history of women on the early western frontier, Mary Easton Sibley may be little known to many modern readers. Yet she was involved in most of the important events in nineteenth-century Missouri, pursued and practiced educational innovations, and founded a school that continues to thrive today. This first biography of Sibley sheds new light on this important pioneer.Kristie Wolferman retraces the course of an exciting life, beginning with four-year-old Mary's arrival in St. Louis in 1804 when her father was appointed attorney general for the District of Louisiana - and the Eastons became one of the first American families to settle in this bustling French town. At fifteen, Mary married George Champlin Sibley, the factor of Fort Osage in Western Missouri, where the young bride lived among the Indians on the edge of the frontier and took up her teaching vocation. She then went on to found Linden Wood in St. Charles, the first college for women west of the Mississippi, and she also taught classes for African American and immigrant children. Throughout the story, Wolferman shows us a life intimately entwined with the history of the state, as Mary witnessed St. Louis in its primitive years and frontier life at Fort Osage, as well as changes in Indian policy and citizenship for former slaves.Although Sibley's life has been told in older accounts, Wolferman's is the first to fully draw on Mary and George Sibley's journals and letters, with Mary's "spiritual journal" especially shedding light on her views regarding women's social and political roles, slavery, temperance, religion, and other topics. By reconstructing Sibley's inner life, as well as her career, Wolferman depicts not merely a frontier heroine and educational pioneer but an assertive woman who did not hesitate to express unconventional views.Today, Lindenwood University is a major coeducational institution that continues to honor Mary Sibley's philosophy and dedicati

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• Editore: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826218059
• ISBN 13: 9780826218056
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160