Elaine Kendall

Articles by Elaine Kendall

Founders Five, February 1975 | Vol. 26, No. 2

The founders of the first women’s colleges weren’t necessarily crusaders or even educators; one savored a vision of himself as the second Great Emancipator, and another was motivated chiefly by hatred of her brother Read >>

Beyond Mother’s Knee, June 1973 | Vol. 24, No. 4

The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph. Read >>

Elaine Kendall

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