Female seminary

A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850.^[1] Supporting academic education for women, the seminaries were part of a large and growing trend toward women's 'equality'.^[2] Some trace its roots to 1815, and characterize it as at the confluence of various liberation movements.^[2]^[3] Some of the seminaries gradually developed as four-year colleges.

^ Sweet, Leonard I. (March 1985). "The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America". Church History. 54 (1). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History: 41–55. doi:10.2307/3165749. JSTOR 3165749. S2CID 145365062. article consists of 15 pages
^ ^a ^b Donnaway, Laura. "Women's Rights Before the Civil War". The Student Historical Journal 1984–1985. Retrieved 21 January 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Melder, Keith E. (1977). Beginnings of Sisterhood: The American Woman's Rights Movement, 1800–1850. New York: Schocken Books. p. 15. ISBN 9780805236491.

[Sweet-1] Sweet, Leonard I. (March 1985). "The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America". Church History. 54 (1). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History: 41–55. doi:10.2307/3165749. JSTOR 3165749. S2CID 145365062. article consists of 15 pages

[Donnaway-2] Donnaway, Laura. "Women's Rights Before the Civil War". The Student Historical Journal 1984–1985. Retrieved 21 January 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[Melder-3] Melder, Keith E. (1977). Beginnings of Sisterhood: The American Woman's Rights Movement, 1800–1850. New York: Schocken Books. p. 15. ISBN 9780805236491.

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