On November 11, 1874, S.C. Beach wrote a letter to Mrs. Caroline Cutler Metcalf. Mrs. Metcalf was the first long-term principal of Wheaton Female Seminary. Beach wrote to Mrs. Metcalf primarily to relay a message from Reverand Edward Everette Hale. In a conversation between Beach and Hale, Hale had stated that he had never seen a paper written by a Wheaton Female Seminary student that was not...
In 1877 "From Her Point of View" was published in Wheaton Female Seminary's literary magazine The Rushlight. The story depicted a young woman, "just out of school, and life with all its sorrows and joys awaiting her" sitting by a fire contemplating her future. The young woman was surrounded by "tokens of wealth" but she wished for something different. While her mother's spirit looked down over...