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| My graduating class and I at the Rockford Female Seminary |
June 12, 1882
What’s the point of having my degree if I’m going to sit
at home and take care of children and ailing relatives? If I had wanted to be a housewife I wouldn’t
have gone to Rockford Female Seminary, much less been the valedictorian. It took me a full year after graduating from
Seminary in 1881 to even get my bachelor’s degree because Rockford wasn’t
considered a college. I want to put what
I’ve learned to use, but all my family wants me to do is either marry and have
kids or stay single and teach. I feel
very lost. I wonder what Mother’s advice
would be if she was still alive, if she would tell me to follow my heart and
improve the world or tell me to settle down and find a suitor?
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| The school in 1881 |
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