Ella Weed (27 January 1853 – 10 January 1894) was an American educator, "the guiding spirit in the first four years" of
Barnard College
Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...
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[Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, ''Alma mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s'', Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1993, pp. 135-7]
Life
After graduating from
Vassar College
Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...
, Ella Weed became principal of Miss Brown's School for Girls in
New York
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Annie Nathan Meyer interested her in the effort to establish Barnard College. Weed attracted financial support for the venture, and became the paid chairman of the Academic Committee.
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Works
*''A Foolish Virgin: a novel'', 1883. A satirical novel about a Vassar graduate who tries to hide her intelligence and education.[
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References
1853 births
1894 deaths
American educators
Vassar College alumni
Presidents of Barnard College
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