Authors: Bosworth, Louise Marion, 1881-1982
Year: 1890
Subjects: Abbott, Grace,; Addams, Jane,; Bosworth, Louise Marion,; Bosworth, Winifred,; Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.; Kehew, Mary Morton,; Boston Women's Trade Union League.; College Settlement of Philadelphia.; Dana Hall (Wellesley, Mass.); Denison House.; Gould Farm (Great Barrington, Mass.); Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.); Rockport Lodge (Rockport, Mass.); Wellesley College; Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.); College students.; Cost and standard of living.; Depressed persons United States.; Finance, Personal.; Friendship.; Mothers and daughters.; School children.; Social settlements.; Social workers.; Teenage girls.; Voyages and travels; Wages Women.; Women Health and hygiene.; Women Sexual behavior.; Working class Massachusetts.; Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs.; Illinois Social life and customs.; Wellesley (Mass.) Social life and customs.
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, and school papers of Bosworth; photographs of her, her family, and Wellesley College; and questionnaires, account books, investigators' reports, drafts of chapters and charts for Bosworth's publication, and other material pertaining to the Women's Educational and Industrial Union's living wage survey. The bulk of the correspondence is between family members, most notably letters, 1900-1915, between Bosworth and her mother while the former was away at school and then working in settlement houses. Much of Bosworth's correspondence with both friends and relatives concerns her health. There are two diaries: one, 1901, chronicles her life as a student at Dana Hall, the other, 1943, was written in the aftermath of a nervous breakdown. Also included are audiotapes of interviews of Bosworth and other family members.