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Bezig met laden... The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomasdoor Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is an excellently written and researched book which you will enjoy immensely if you are a history person (I am not). I read it mostly out of duty as an alumna and out of curiosity as Bryn Mawr begins a process of determining whether to permanently remove Thomas's name from a prominent building and how to further acknowledge the role her racism and antisemitism played in the early formation of the college. ( ) Carey Thomas, b. 1857. President of Bryn Mawr. She was a hugely outsized personality: a perfectionist, an elitist and snob; she was demanding and had a passionate temper. She was a plagiarist and a deceitful autocrat. Thomas was known to say about her students, "Only our failures marry" (someone cleaned up that quote to read "Our failures only marry," but Horowitz sets the record straight). Horowitz has written a huge book about a fascinating, difficult woman. The early years of Bryn Mawr are well-documented throughout. I give it four stars because I wish Horowitz had pared some of it down; having said that, it's a fascinating account of a complex personality. Thomas is lucky in her biographer. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"M. Carey Thomas (1857-1935) was an extraordinary woman whose career spanned the Victorian and modern worlds." "Her story is superbly told in a biography that resonates with the complicated interplay between her necessarily hidden private life and her eminently visible and successful public life as president of Bryn Mawr College, as a founder of the Johns Hopkins medical school and the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, as a leader in the women's suffrage movement, and as the preeminent spokeswoman for education around the turn of the century. Behind closed doors, however, Carey Thomas was by no means the "proper Quaker daughter" many of her contemporaries assumed her to be. She was a freethinker. She was an ardent admirer of Swinburne, Rossetti, and the Pre-Raphaelites. She was a passionate woman whose lovers were women." "In rich detail and with insight and balance, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz recounts a life lived outside the bounds of nineteenth-century convention. She shows us the child overcoming a life-threatening and disfiguring burn; the schoolgirl deciding to devote her life to scholarship - and ultimately becoming one of the first American women to study for a doctorate in Germany. We see the Cornell woman - in an age when marriage eliminated the possibility of a serious career - promising her parents to avoid all encounters with men students; the young educator outwitting college trustees to develop her dreams of a rigorous education for women. Throughout, as the book reconstructs Thomas' consciousness and her understanding of herself as a woman of passion, Horowitz provides fresh insights into emotional and sexual life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Carey Thomas was complexity itself. She was at once visionary and narrow, warm and hard, spontaneous and calculating. She demanded everything of the world and of herself. She brought equal intensity to her professional responsibilities and her personal relations. She lived at fever pitch." "Helen Horowitz has given us a brilliant portrait of the vivid and sui generis woman who - in a world that held no models for her - created herself, full scale, in the grand manner."--BOOK JACKET. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)378.74812Social sciences Education Higher education North America Northeastern U.S. Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities near PhiladelphiaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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