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HIST/WFQS 260: Sex and Reproduction in Nineteenth Century America: Before Margaret Sanger

This guide is a companion to Ms. Edwards' group assignment, Sex at Early Vassar

Primary or Semi-Primary

Anon, Letters from Old-Time Vassar, Written by a Student in 1869-1870. Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 1915.
Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters, ed. Henry Albers. Clinton Corners, NY: College Avenue Press, 2001).
NOTE: You may want to supplement this source with Mary King Babbitt. Maria Mitchell As Her Students Knew Her, 32 pp., (Poughkeepsie: Enterprise Publishing, 1912) [on Main Reserve]
Nettleton, Greta. The Quack's Daughter. [n.l.] Greta Nettleton, 2012. [print]
(on Cora Keck, Vassar student in the 1880s)
Poppenheim, Mary B. Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916. ed. Joan Marie Johnson. Columbia, SC: South Carolina University Press, 2002. [print]
Raymond, Cornelia M. Memories of a Child of Vassar. Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 1940. [print]
Additional VC material available online

Secondary Sources