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Bibliography on Girls' Schools

These books and articles were useful to me in writing Where Girls Come First. Some directly address the history of girls’ schools. Others deal with broader issues about women’s education. A few are fiction set at girls’ schools, written by alumnae of girls’ schools.

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: Macmillan, 1910. (Includes description of Addams’ time as a student at Rockford Seminary.)
Alexander, Sara Colclough. The Open Door: Celebrating the First Hundred Years of the Holton-Arms School. Louisville: Harmony House, 1999.
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1995.
-------. Separated by Sex: A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education for Girls. Washington D.C.: AAUW, 1998.
Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Anderson, Nick. “One-Sex Schools Don’t Escape Bias, Study Says.” Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1998, A1.
Arnold, Winifred. “The Girl in Boarding School.” Harper’s Bazar, April and Sept. 1908, 387-89 and 878-880.
Barbieri, Maureen. Sounds From the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995. (Barbieri was a teacher at the Laurel School while Carol Gilligan was doing research on girls there.)
Barnett, Evelyn Brooks. “Nannie Burroughs and the Education of Black Women.” In The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, edited by Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.
Beadie, Nancy and Tolley, Kim, eds. Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925. New York: Routledge Falmer, 2002.
Beirne, Rosamond Randall. Let’s Pick the Daisies: The History of the Bryn Mawr School, 1885-1967. Baltimore: The Bryn Mawr School, 1970.
Belfer, Lauren. City of Light. New York: Bantam Dell, 1999. (This historical novel centers on the headmistress of a girls’ school in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901. The author attended Buffalo Seminary.)
Bishop, Susan O. “Where Have All the Headmistresses Gone?” Independent School Bulletin, Oct. 1974, 22-4.
Boas, Louise Schutz. Woman’s Education Begins: The Rise of the Women’s Colleges. Norton, Mass.: Wheaton College Press, 1935.
Bortz, Ave Marie DeVanon. Mayfield: The Early Years, 1931-1950. Pasadena: Mayfield Senior School, 2000.
“Boys & Girls/Together and Apart.” Independent School 52 (Fall 1992).
Brackett, Anna C., ed. The Education of American Girls. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1874.
-------. “The Private School for Girls.” Harper’s 84 (May 1892), 943-958.
Bready, Mary H. Through All Our Days: A History of St. Paul’s School for Girls. Brooklandville, Md.: St. Paul’s School for Girls, 1999.
Brewer, Eileen Mary. Nuns and the Education of American Catholic Women, 1860-1920. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1987.
Brickley, Lynne Templeton. Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Academy, 1792-1833. Ed.D. diss.: Harvard University, 1985.
Brittain, Kilbee Cormach; Newman, Valerie Weiss; and Carnes, Cecil, eds. Leaves from a Marlborough Diary, 1888-1938. Los Angeles: Marlborough School, 1987.
Brown, Lynn Mikel, and Gilligan, Carol. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Brunowe, Marion J. “Where the Spirit of St. Vincent Lives.” Catholic World 57 (June 1893), 349-72.
Buckley, Sarah Elizabeth. “The Bodying Forth of a Long-Loved Idea: Emma Willard’s Reformulation of School, Family, and Nation.” Thesis, Harvard College, 1994.
Buetow, Harold A. Of Singular Benefit: The Story of Catholic Education in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Burns, J.A. The Catholic School System in the United States: Its Principles, Origin and Establishment. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1908.
-------. Growth and Development of the Catholic School System in the United States. New York: Benziger Bros., 1912.
Bryk, Anthony S.; Lee, Valerie E.; and Holland, Peter B. Catholic Schools and the Common Good. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Buffalo Seminary, The: 125 Years. Buffalo: Buffalo Seminary, n.d.
Carey, Lorene. Black Ice. New York: Vintage, 1992. (This memoir is about an African-American girl attending a formerly all-white, all-male boarding school.)
Clarke, Edward H. Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls. 1873. Reprint, New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1972.
Coburn, Carol K. and Smith, Martha. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Cochran, Heather, ed. Celebrating Milestones: The Life and Legacy of the Harpeth Hall School. Nashville: Harpeth Hall, 2001.
Concannon, George T. “The John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School.” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 72 (Sept. 1961), 106-124.
Cooke, Hope. Time Change. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. (This memoir includes Cooke’s time at the Chapin School and the Madeira School.)
Cookson, Peter W. Jr. and Persell, Caroline Hodges. Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: ÔWoman’s Sphere’ in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Croswell, James Greenleaf. Letters and Writings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. (Croswell was an early and influential head of the Brearley School.)
Dalton, Kathleen M. A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover. New York: toExcel, 1996.
Datnow, Amanda; Hubbard, Lea; and Woody, Elisabeth. Is Single Gender Schooling Viable in the Public Sector? Lessons from California’s Pilot Program, May 20, 2001. http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/tps/adatnow/final.pdf.
Datnow, Amanda, and Hubbard, Lea. Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single-sex and Coeducational Schooling. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Davis, Nancy, and Donahue, Barbara. Miss Porter’s School Æ A History. Farmington, Conn.: Miss Porter’s School, 1992.
Davis, Mary M. A Remarkable Journey: The Story of St. Mary’s Episcopal School. Little Rock: August House, 1998.
Dawson, Virginia P. Learning for Life: The First 50 Years of Hathaway Brown School: 1876 to 1926 Cleveland: Hathaway Brown School, 1996.
Deak, JoAnn, and Barker, Teresa. Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
DeButts, Mary Custis Lee, and Woodland, Rosalie Noland, eds. Charlotte Haxall Noland, 1883-1969. Middleburg, Va.: Foxcroft School 1971
Dewey, John. “Is Co-Education Injurious to Girls?” Ladies Home Journal, June 11, 1911, 22, 60-1.
Easter, Opal V. Nannie Helen Burroughs. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
Edmondson, Mary Dillon. Profiles in Leadership: A History of the Spence School, 1892-1992. West Kennebunk, Maine: Phoenix Publishing, 1991.
Eliot, Thomas H. Two Schools in Cambridge: The Story of Browne & Nichols and Buckingham. Cambridge, Mass.: Windflower Press, 1982.
Elliott, Mary. “School Days at the Sacred Heart.” Putnam’s Magazine, March 1870, 275-286.
Emma Willard and her Pupils, or Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872. New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898.
Estrich, Susan. “Separate is Better.” The New York Times Magazine, May 22, 1994, 39.
Everett, Carole. The Nightingale-Bamford School: 75 Years of Excellence. New York: Nightingale-Bamford School, 1996.
Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: William Morrow, 1981.
Farnham, Christie Anne. The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South. New York: New York University Press, 1994.
Ferry, Abby Farwell. When I Was at Farmington. Chicago: Ralph Fletchers Seymour, 1931.
“Finishing School Scorns ÔMilk Toast’ Education.” New York World Telegram, 13 December 1941, 10. (In archives of the Brearley School.)
Fishel, Elizabeth. Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became. New York: Random House, 2000. (Fishel chronicles the lives of her Brearley classmates from the early 1970s into the 1990s.)
Fishel, Michael, and Pottker, Janice. “Sex Bias in Secondary Schools: The Impact of Title IX.” In Sex Bias in the Schools, edited by Pottker and Fishel. Cranbury, New Jersey: American University Presses, 1977.
Foner, Philip S., and Pacheco, Josephine F. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner Æ Champions of Antebellum Black Education. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Footsteps 1814-1989: Albany Academy for Girls. Albany, N.Y.: Albany Academy for Girls, n.d.
Fowler, Henry. “Educational Services of Mrs. Willard.” In Memoirs of Teachers and Educators, edited by Henry Barnard. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Fuller, Edmund. Prudence Crandall: An Incident of Racism in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1971.
Fuller, Lawrence Benedict. Education for Leadership: The Emergence of the College Preparatory School. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
Generous, Tom. Choate Rosemary Hall: A History of the School. Wallingford, Conn.: Choate Rosemary Hall, 1997.
Gerdes, M. Reginald. “To Educate and Evangelize: Black Catholic Schools of the Oblate Sisters of Providence (1828-1880).” U.S. Catholic Historian 7, nos. 2-3 (spring 1988), 183-199.
Gifford, Dorothy W. Lincoln School: The First Century. Providence: Lincoln School, 1984.
Gilligan, Carol. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. (Gilligan’s writings were a major influence on girls’ schools in the 1980s and 1990s.)
Gilligan, Carol; Lyons, Nona P.; and Hanmer, Trudy J., eds. Making Connections: The Relational World of Girls at the Emma Willard School. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Gone Away. Middleburg, Va.: Foxcroft School, 1989.
Goodsell, Willystine, ed. Pioneers of Women’s Education in the United States. New York: AMS Press, 1931.
Gordon, Ann D. “The Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia.” In Women of America: A History, edited by Carol Ruth Berkin and Mary Beth Norton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Green, Nancy. “Female Education and School Competition: 1820-1850.” History of Education Quarterly 18 (Summer 1978): 129-139.
Griffin, Frances. Less Time for Meddling: A History of Salem Academy and College, 1772-1866. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1979.
Gutcheon, Beth. The New Girls. New York: HarperCollins, 1979. (This novel about girls coming of age in the 1960s is set at a girls’ boarding school. Gutcheon attended Miss Porter’s School.)
Gurian, Michael. Boys and Girls Learn Differently: A Guide for Teachers and Parents. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2001.
Guttmann, Allen. Women’s Sports: A History New York: Columbia University Press,
Hachard, Marie-Madeleine. Letters of Marie-Madeleine Hachard, Ursuline of New Orleans, 1727-1728. Translated by Myldred Masson Costa. New Orleans: Laborde Printing Co., 1974.
Hafner, Katie. “Girls Soak Up Technology in Schools of Their Own.” New York Times, 23 September 1999.
Hamilton, Andrea Dale. A Vision for Girls: A Story of Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School. Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1997.
Hamilton, Sue Cleveland. Programs of Studies of Private Secondary Schools for Girls, Master’s thesis., University of Chicago, 1932.
Handler, Bonnie Silver. The Schooling of “Unmarried Sisters”: Linden Hall and the Moravian Educational Tradition, 1863-1940. Ed.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1980.
-------. Linden Hall: Enduring Values, Changing Times. Lititz, Penn.: Sutter House, 1997.
Harris, Jean S. “Let’s Hear it for Coeducation, Folks.” Independent School Bulletin, Dec. 1973, 5-7.
Harrison, V. V. Changing Habits: A Memoir of the Society of the Sacred Heart. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Hawley, Richard A. “Boys’ Schools: A Progressive Case for an Ancient Form.” In Independent Schools, Independent Thinkers, edited by Pearl Rock Kane. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
Headmistresses Association of the East. Papers. Sophia Smith Collection of Smith College. (This collection includes educational philosophy statements by a number of influential heads of girls’ schools in the early 1920s.)
Heizer, Linda. It May Sound Like a Ferry Tale. Lake Forest, Il.: Ferry Hall, 1972.
Holton-Arms 1901-1981. Bethesda, Md.: The Holton-Arms School, 1980.
Horn, Miriam. Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary’s Class Æ Wellesley ’69. New York; Anchor, 1999.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
------. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York:: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Howe, Julia Ward. Sex and Education: A Reply to Dr. E.H. Clarke’s “Sex in Education.” Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874.
“Hunter College High School: A Chronology.” In Hunter College High School Alumnae/I Association Directory 1993. White Plains, N.Y.: Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co., 1993.
Hunter, Judith A. A Centennial History of Kent Place School, 1894-1994. Kent Place School, Summit, N.J. Photocopy.
Inness, Sherrie A. “Mashes, Smashes, Crushes, and Raves: Woman-to-Woman Relationship[s in Popular Women’s College Fiction, 1895-1915.” NWSA Journal 6, no. 1 (Spring 1994), 48-68.
Johnson, Karen A. Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Educational Philospphies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
Jost, Kenneth. “Single-Sex Education.” The CQ Researcher 12 (July 12, 2002), 569-592.
Kaminer, Wendy. “The Trouble with Single-Sex Schools.” Atlantic Monthly, April 1998, 22-36.
Kane, Paula; Kenneally, James; and Kennelly, Karen, eds. Gender Identities in American Catholicism. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2001.
Kathleen Galvin Johnson ’53 Archives of the Madeira School.
Keneally, James K. The History of American Catholic Women. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1990.
Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Kersey, Shirley Nelson. Classics in the Education of Girls and Women. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Klaus, Susan L., and Martin, Mary Porter Johns. A Part of Us Forever: A Centennial History of St. Catherine’s School, 1890-1990. Richmond, Va.: St. Catherine’s School, 1989.
Kraeplin, Camille R., ed. Of Hearts and Minds: The Hockaday Experience, 1913-1988. Dallas: The Hockaday School, 1988.
Kraushaar, Otto F. American Nonpublic Schools: Patterns of Diversity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.
------. Private Schools: From the Puritans to the Present. Bloomington, In.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1976.
Labouchere, Albert E., ed. The Chatham Hall Storybook. Chatham, Va.: Chatham Hall, 1994.
LaFarge, Phyllis. “A Warm-Hearted Guide to Certain Girls’ Schools.” Harpers, April 1963, 73-79.
Larcom, Lucy. A New England Girlhood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. (Larcom’s memoir includes a good description of the “dame school” she attended in the early 1800s.)
Larson, Paul Clifford. St. Paul Academy and Summit School, 1900-2000. St. Paul, Minn.: St. Paul Academy and Summit School, 2000.
Lee, Andrea. “Servant Problems.” In Sarah Phillips. New York: Random House, 1984, 53-59. (This short story involves an African-American girl at a largely white private girls’ school. Lee attended the Baldwin School.)
Lee, Valerie E, and Bryk, Anthony S. “Effects of Single-Sex Secondary Schools on Student Achievement and Attitudes.” Journal of Educational Psychology 78 (1986), 381-395.
Lee, Valerie E., and Marks, Helen M. “Sustained Effects of the Single-Sex Secondary School Experience on Attitudes, Behaviors, and Values in College.” Journal of Educational Psychology82 (1990) , 578-592.
--------. “Who Goes Where? Choice of Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary Schools.” Sociology of Education 65 (1992), 226-253.
Lee, Valerie E.; Marks, Helen M.; and Byrd, Tina. “Sexism in Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary School Classrooms.” Sociology of Education 67 (1994), 92-120.
Lessard, Suzanne. “The Luxury of Order.” House Beautiful, Dec. 1995, 16-124. (On Convent of the Sacred Heart school in Noroton, Conn.)
Levine, Stephanie Wellen. Mysterics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Lewin, Tamar. “Amid Equity Concerns, Girls’ Schools Thrive. New York Times, 11 April 1999, p. 1.
Lindhorst, Marie J. Sarah Mapps Douglass: The Emergence of an African American Educator/Activist in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1995.
Lloyd, Susan McIntosh. A Singular School: Abbot Academy 1828-1973. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1979.
Lord, John. The Life of Emma Willard. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1873.
Lutyens, Elizabeth. So Grows the Tree: The Brooks School of Concord, Nashoba Country Day School, Nashoba Brooks School. Concord, Mass.: Nashoba Brooks School, 2001.
Lutz, Alma. Emma Willard: Pioneer Educator of American Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
McCallie, Eleanor Grace. Don’t Say ÔYou,’ Say ÔWe’: The Founding of Girls’ Preparatory School, 1906-1918. Chattanooga: The Bruiser Press, 1982.
McCarthy, Marina Chukayeff. The Anchor and the Wind: A Profile of Sacred Heart Schools in the U.S. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1990.
McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1974. (McCarthy’s memoir includes her time as a student at the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and the Annie Wright School.)
McClelland, Averil Evans. The Education of Women in the United States. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Education of Black Girls in the South, 1904-1923. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1991.
--------. “The Historical Context of the Single-Sex Schooling Debate Among African Americans.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 17 (1993), 193-201.
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas, and Smith, Elaine M., eds. Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
McFarland, Philip. A History of Concord Academy: The First Half-Century. Concord, Mass.: Concord Academy, 1986.
McKeen, Phebe. Thornton Hall; or, Old Questions in Young Lives. New York: Anson D. Randolph & Co., 1872. (This didactic novel, set in a girls’ boarding school, was written by the headmistress of Abbot Academy.)
McLachlan, James. American Boarding Schools: A Historical Study. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970.
Melder, Keith. “Mask of Oppression: The Female Seminary Movement in the United States.” New York History 55 (1974), 260-279.
Mihesuah, Devon A. Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909. Urbana, Il: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993.
Miller-Bernal, Leslie. Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
Miner, Myrtilla. The School for Colored Girls. Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson’s Steam Power Press, 1854.
“Miss Chapin’s, Miss Walker’s, Foxcroft, Farmington.” Fortune, August 1931, 38-44, 84-6.
“Miss Madeira’s School: A Portrait, 1906-1981.” In Madeira Today, Fall 1981.
Miss Porter’s School archives. Farmington., Conn.
Moore, Mary; Piper, Valerie; and Schaefer, Elizabeth. Single-Sex Schooling Educational Effectiveness: A Research Overview,Washington DC: Mathematica Policy Research, 1992.
Morgan, Harry. Historical Perspectives on the Education of Black Children, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995.
Morrison, Louise Douglas. A Voyage of Faith: The Story of Harpeth Hall. Nashville: Harpeth Hall School, 1980
Morrow, Diane Batts. Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Mount de Chantal Centenary, 1848-1948. Wheelning, W.V.: Sisters of the Visitation, n.d.
Munsterberg, Hugo. “Is Co-Education Wise for Girls?” Ladies Home Journal, May 15, 1991, 16, 32.
Murray, Judith Sargent. Excerpts from The Gleaner. Schenectady, N.Y.: Union College Press, 1992.
Murphy, Hope Ford. Educating the Independent Mind: The First Hundred Years of Laurel School. Shaker Heights: Laurel School, 1998.
Neel, Joanne. Miss Irwin’s of Philadelphia: A History of the Agnes Irwin School. Wynnewood, Penn.: Livingston Publishing Company, 1969.
Neal, Heather, and Hammerschmidt, Judith. A Preposterous Extravagance: The Centennial History of the Baldwin School, 1888-1988. Bryn Mawr: The Baldwin School, 1988.
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Nickerson, Marjorie L. A Long Way Forward: The First Hundred Years of the Packer Collegiate Institute. Brooklyn: The Packer Collegiate Institute, 1945.
Noerdlinger, Charlotte Johnson. And Cheer for the Green and Gold: An Anecdotal History of The Chapin School. New York: The Chapin School, 2000.
Oates, Mary J. “Catholic Female Academies on the Frontier.” U.S. Catholic Historian 12, (Fall 1994), 121-136.
Orenstein, Peggy. SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteen, and the Confidence Gap. Nw York: Ancho, 1994.
Parks, Rosa, with Haskins, Jim. My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992.
Pease, Jane H. and William H. Ladies, Women & Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston & Boston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Perkins, Linda M. “The Impact of the ÔCult of True Womanhood’ on the Education of Black Women.” Journal of Social Issues 39. no. 3 (1983), 17-28.
Peyster, Deborah and Tenney, Roberta. The National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls: A Celebration of 75 Years. National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls, 1995.
Pfeifer, Helen E. Something of a Faith: A Brief History of Mary Holmes College. West Point, Miss: Mary Holmes College, 1982.
Philadelphia High Schools for Girls: 150 Years, A Beginning. Video. Philadelphia High School for Girls Alumnae Association.
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.
Pinckney, Josephine. Call Back Yesterday: The First Twenty-five Years of Ashley Hall. Charleston, S.C.: The Quin Press. Inc.
Porter, Charlotte W. “Physical Hindrances to Teaching Girls.” Forum, Sept. 1891, 41-9.
Post, Winifred Lowry. Purpose and Personality: The Story of Dana Hall. Wellesley, Mass.: Dana Hall School, 1978.
Potwine, Elizabeth B. Faithfully Yours, Eliza Kellas. Troy, N.Y.: Emma Willard School, 1960.
Powell, Arthur G. Lessons From Privilege: The American Prep School Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Powell, Barbara S. and Arthur G. “For Girls, Schools of Their Own.” Independent School, Oct. 1983, 55-6.
Powers, Jane Bernard. The ÔGirl Question’ In Education: Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era. London: Falmer Press, 1992.
Pratt, Constance Ballou, ed. Sharing. National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls, 1974. (This collection of essays offers essays by numerous heads of school on the merits of going coed or remaining single-sex.)
Pridmore, Jay. Many Hearts and Many Hands: The History of Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy. Lake Forest, Ill: Lake Forest Academy, 1994.
Ravitch, Diane. “All-Girls School: A Blessing or a Bias?” New York Daily News, July 10, 2001.
Read, Florence Matilda. The Story of Spelman College.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
Reid, Doris Fielding. Edith Hamilton: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Norton, 1967.
Repplier, Agnes. In Our Convent Days. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
Riordan, Cornelius. Girls and Boys In School: Together or Separate? New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Rubin, Devora. Daughters of Destiny: Women who Revolutionized Jewish Life and Torah Education. New York: Mesorah Publications, 1988.
Rury, John L. Education and Women’s Work: Female Schooling and the Division of Labor in Urban America, 1870-1930. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Sadker, Myra and David. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Safian, Joanne. Educating the Heart and Mind: A History of Marymount School, 1926-2001. New York: Marymount School, 2002.
Sahli, Nancy. “Smashing: Women’s Relationships Before the Fall.” Chrysalis 8 (Summer 1979), 17-27.
Salamone, Rosemary C. Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
-----. “Single-Sex-Schooling: Law, Policy, and Research.” In Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1999. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999.
Sangster, Margaret E. “A School for the Girl of Thirteen.” Harper’s Bazar 33 (June 1900), 375.
Sargent, Porter E. A Handbook of the Best Private Schools of the United States and Canada. Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1915.
Savin, Marion B. and Abrahams, Harold J. “The Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia.” History of Education Journal 8 (Winter 1957).
Schier, Tracy and Russett, Cynthia, eds. Catholic Women’s Colleges in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Schultz, Nancy Lusignan. Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Scott, Anne Firor. “The Ever-Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary, 1822-72.” In Making the Invisible Woman Visible. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1984.
-------. “What, Then, Is the American: This New Woman?” In Making the Invisible Woman Visible. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1984.
Seller, Maxine Schwartz, ed. Women Educators in the United States, 1820-1993: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Seventy-five Years of Excellence: The Ellis School, 1916-1991. Pittsburgh: The Ellis School, 1991.
Sherwood, Grace H. The Oblates’ Hundred and One Years. New York: Macmillan Co., 1931.
Shmurak, Carole. Voices of Hope: Adolescent Girls at Single Sex and Coeducational Schools. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Siroky, Allen. Progressive Era Reform and Private Secondary Schools for Women, 1890-1920. Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1996.
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Chronicles 1868-1922, Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. California Provincial Archives, Los Gatos, Calif.
Sizer, Theodore. The Age of the Academies. New York: Teachers College, 1964.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish. “The Founding of Mount Holyoke College.” In Women of America: A History. Edited by Carol Ruth Berkin and Mary Beth Norton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1 (1975), 1-29.
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Sommers, Christina Hoff. The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Springside School 1979-1979: One Hundred Years of Tradition and Change. Philadelphia: Springside School, n.d.
Spykman, Elizabeth Choate. Westover. Middlebury, Conn.: Westover School, 1959.
Stabiner, Karen. All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002.
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Stevenson, Louise. Miss Porter’s School Æ A History in Documents, 1847-1948. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
--------. “Sarah Porter Educates Useful Ladies, 1847-1900.” Winterthur Portfolio 18 (1983), 39-59
Strane, Susan. A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Crandall and the Education of Black Women. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
Streitmatter, Janice L. For Girls Only: Making a Case for Single-Sex Schooling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Stuart, Janet Erskine. The Education of Catholic Girls.London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1912.
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