MAY LYON OF PUTNAM'S HILL

by Evelyn I. Banning ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 18, 1965

Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke. She was one of those rare people who are in and of their time. She knew and absorbed some of the best educational theory from the foremost practitioners of her day--Catherine Beecher, Emma Willard, etc.--particularly about the education of women. This novelized biography does better than most at making these considerations real. The book falls down on the job in clarifying what contemporary practices Mary Lyon rejected and just where she was pigheadedly stubborn. Needless to say, a thwarted romance early in life gets too much space, but the single-woman-teacher-with-a-busted-heart-bone is standard equipment for the feminine juvenile imagination. This book plays to that and discounts what must have been a driving, energetically selfstarting individual. Nevertheless, it does a better job on the times and what the woman might have said than most books written in this style could. It's really a Mary Lyon easy reader. (What in the world would she have said to that?) For the future teacher.

Pub Date: Nov. 18, 1965

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Vanguard

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION