In Adamless Eden
Subtitle: the community of women faculty at Wellesley
By: Patricia Ann Palmieri.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Wellesley College -- Faculty -- Biography; Women college teachers -- Massachusetts -- Wellesley -- Biography
Description: One of the most influential women's colleges in the country, Wellesley has educated many illustrious women, from Katharine Lee Bates - author of America the Beautiful - to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since its origins in the late nineteenth century, Wellesley has had an impact on American history and women's history. The college was unique in its commitment to an exclusively female faculty and much of its intellectual fervor can be traced back to that time.

This book is an engrossing narrative history of that first generation of Wellesley professors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-[358]) and index.