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BRISTOL, Massachusetts in the 1870s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Caroline Cutler Metcalf's Role in Education
    date November 11, 1874map BRISTOL, Massachusettstags Education, Women's History

    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...

  2. What to do with a Seminary Education?
    date 1877map BRISTOL, Massachusettstags Education, Women

    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...