Goucher College presents this Web version of a series of round robin letters, kept in volumes that were passed from hand to hand, written by 37 women of the class of 1903. Two volumes dated 1919 and 1937 are available at the Website. The letters speak of many aspects of women's lives during this period of American history: family and children, careers, suffrage, World War I, and the Depression. Women's education is a uniting theme in all of the letters; Sarah Pinsker, one of the site's designers says, "if one thread does wind through nearly all of the letters, it is the overwhelming sense that it was their education -- Goucher, in general, but a women's college in particular -- that helped set them on their way in life. College is the thing which all of them have in common." The letters have been transcribed for the Website so that links to correspondents, photographs, and each writer's biographical page could be created. There are some digital images of handwritten excerpts as well. To read an essay by Pinsker on the significance of the letters, follow the link More about the letters to "'Til Robin Flies Again, the Goucher Class of 1903 and Women's Education".
Comments