The Higher Education of Women in England & America, 1865-1920 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Eschbach traces the path of women toward intellectual emancipation from 18th-century precedents, through the hard-won access to college education in the 19th-century, to the triumphs (tempered by ongoing struggle) of the early 1900s. She compares women's experiences in both the US and England, rev