Howard, Caroline, 110
Howard, Grace, 389
Howe, Elias, inventor of the sew-
ing-machine, 285
Kempin, Dr. Emile, 234
Kepley, Ada H., first woman grad-
uate of law school, 233
Kilgore, Carrie Burnham, 235
Howe, Julia Ward, 124, 132, 215, Kindergarten system, the history
269; introduction by, I
Hunt, Harriet.K., 147, 148
Huntingdon, Countess of, 209
Hutchinson, Anne, 348; begins
work of women in Christian min-
istry, 206
Huxley, quoted on education, 38
"Hypatia," 249
Indian Association, national, 384
Indian petition, 380
Indian Treaty-keeping and Pro-
tective Association, organization
of, 381
Indiana, University of, admission
of women to, 72
Indians, care of, 373
Industrial education in the South,
104; New York association,
336
Industrial schools for girls, Dor-
chester, Mass., 331; the Wilson,
288. See Cooper Institute
Industry, woman in, 276; argu-
ments against, 287; average
weekly earnings of, in cities,
312; condition of, 303; state in-
terference in condition of wage-
earners, 315; state legislation for
protection of, 319
Insane asylums, admission
women physicians to, 193, 194;
women physicians in, 195, 351
Inventive faculty, the, a gift of the
American woman, 279
Italy, women in, 13
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 121, 374
Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam, 191; chap.
ter by, 139: first woman ad-
mitted to the Paris École de
Médecine, 184, note
Johnson, Mrs. E. C., 364
Joshee, Dr. Amandibai, 353
Journal, first medical, 141, note
Journalism, woman in, 123
Jurors, women as, 244
of, in America, 335
Knights of Labor, the, women in,
299
a respect for, the founda-
tion of democracy, I
Lamb, Martha J., 17
Larcom, Lucy, 124, 283
Latin School for Girls, the, 23;
opening of, 27
Law, woman in, 218; admission to
Supreme Court, 225; and the
Roman Forum, 218; in England,
219; influence at bar, 243
Law schools for women, admis-
sion to, 233, 238
Lazarus, Emma, 125
Lee, Ann, 208
Leicester Academy, first for girls
in New England, 18
Literature, woman in, 107
Livermore, Mary A., 132, 269;
chapter by, 245
Lockwood. Belva Ann, 224, 239
London University, women ad-
mitted to medical school, 148,
note
Longevity, of college graduates,
statistics of, 35
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 365; chap-
ter by, 323
Lowell, Maria White, 124
Lowell Mills, the, 281; contrasted
with factories in large cities, 283
Lutes, Annie Cronise, 236
Luther. See Reformation
Lyon, Mary, a pupil of Emerson,
30; biographical sketch of, 34
Man-midwifery, crusade against,
Mann, Horace, and co-education,
38, 70; and normal schools, 37
Mansfield, Arabella A., first
woman to obtain admission to
the bar, 221
Mississippi, University of, 95
Missouri, University of, 75
Medical Education Society, Female, Mitchell, Prof. Maria, 45, 91, note
Philadelphia, 157
Syracuse University, 175
University of Michigan, 173
Medical Society,
County, passes resolutions of
excommunication, 162
Medicine, woman in, 139; annual
incomes, 200; capacity for sur-
gery, 202; census of 1880, number
registered, 197; characteristics
of, 201. See Surgery, woman in,
Hospitals, Insane asylums
Methodism, founder of American.
See Heck, Barbara
Methodists, progressiveness of, in
education, 61
Methodist University, the, 99
Meyer, Annie Nathan, 44
Midwifery, exclusive control of, by
women, 140; relation of men to,
140
Ministry, woman in, 206; admis-
sion to theological schools, 212,
214, 215, 217; ministerial confer-
ence, 215; opening of Hartford
Theological Seminary, 212; order
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley,
quoted, 6
Moravian Brethren, the, found first
private institution in America to
give girls better advantages than
common schools, 17; and second-
ary education of girls, 92
More, Hannah, and female educa-
tion, 29
Mott, Lucretia, 207, 262, 263, 264,
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 132
Mount Holyoke Seminary, 149;
founding of, 35
Murfree, Miss, 122
Normal schools, defect of, in
West, 85; history of system in
America, 37; importance of, 36;
in the South, 104; primitive be-
ginnings in West, 73
Northwestern University, 76
Nurses, and colored women
South, 358; past and present
contrasted, 354; training-schools
for, 354; training-schools for,
statistics of, 356
Oberlin College, 266; admits wo-
of deaconesses, 212; order of
sisterhoods, 213; in the primitive
Church 216; recognition in Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, 210, in
Baptist Church, 211, in German
Lutheran Church, 212, in Method-Pacific Dispensary. See Hospitals
men theological students, 212.
See Coeducation
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 114, 129;
work for prison reform, 361
ism, 209, in Roman Catholic
Church, 208, in Universalist
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 47
Parker, Theodore, and woman suf-
frage, 264
Peabody, Elizabeth, 335
Penn Charter School, the, 17
Pennsylvania, University of, ad-
mission of women to, 50
Penny, Virginia, 286
Perry, M. Fredrika, 233
Philanthropy—woman in, care of
the criminal, 359; care of the
Indian, 373; care of the sick, 346;
charity, 323; difference between
past and present methods, 293
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 119
Phelps, Mrs. Lincoln, 91
Phillips, Ann Green, 398
Phillips, Wendell, and woman suf-
frage, 265
Physical Culture, Normal Institute
for, 38
Physicians, women, in State insti-
tutions, 351; in insane asylums,
193
Police matrons, 367, 368
Porter, President, quoted on co-
education, 26
Postmasters, women as, 230
Preparatory departments, connec-
tion with colleges deplored, 71
Press Association, Woman's Inter-
national, 133; Woman's National,
135
Prescott, Harriet, 118
Preston, Anne, 157, 163, 165
Prison Association, New York,
328, 360; Rhode Island, 362
Prisons, reformatory at Sherburne,
351, 364; reformatory for women
and girls, 363
order, 413; Origin and Applica-
tion of, 411
Reformation, influence of, 254
Ripon College, 59.
Rhine, Alice Hyneman, chapter
by, 276
Robinson, Lelia J., 228
Robinson, Mrs. H. H., 283
Rowson, Susanna, 109
Sanitary Commission, organiza-
Schools for girls, first grammar
school, 9; for Indians, 373
School suffrage, States conferring,
271
Secondary instruction in the South,
103
Sectarianism in the college, 59
Sedgwick, Catherine, 115
Semi-colleges, 94, 99
Sewall, Lucy, 166
Sewall, May Wright, 135; chapter
by, 52
Sewing-machine, the influence of,
285
Seymour, Mary F., 137
Shakers, essential doctrines of, 208
Sick, care of, 346
Sigourney, Lydia H., 110
Silk industry in America, 278
Smith College, 46
Smith, Hannah Whitall, quoted,
388
Smith, Sydney, quoted on educa-
tion of women, 29
Socialism defined, 320, note.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 132, 263,
269
State boards, women on, 324, 365
Professions, the keystone to the State Charities Aid Association,
arch of woman's liberty, 2
Public speaking by women, first in
America, 393; protests against,
394
Quakers, influence of, 207
Quincy, Josiah, quoted, 21
State medical societies admitting
women, summary of, 188; of
Massachusetts, admission
women to, 187; of Philadelphia,
admission of women to, 183
State recognition, value of, 173
Quinton, Amelia Stone, 385 ; chap- State universities, argument for,
Red Cross Society, American
amendment to, 419; not an
88; origin in, 56; democracy of,
56; in West, table of, 57
State, Woman in the, 245
Stephens, Ann S., 128
Stevenson, Dr. Sarah Hackett, 183,
Stoddard, Mrs., 118
Stone, Lucy, 132, 264, 269, 397
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 116, 397
Straw industry, the, 278
Stuarts, reign of, in England, and
disrespect for womanly intelli-
gence, 6
Sullivan, Margaret Buchanan, 134
Surgery, women in, list of opera-
tions performed by, 203.
See
Medicine, woman in
Swarthmore College, 50
Sweden, education in, 13
Swisshelm, Jane G., 129, 264
Syracuse University, 48
Teachers, first recognition of wo-
Union, Woman's
Christian, 137, 270, 399; and the
public school, 402; character of
meetings, 401; methods of organ-
ization, 402; prison department
of, 365
Terhune, Mrs., 120
Texas, University of, 95
Thompson, Mary H., 167, 174
Troy Female Seminary, 149; found-
ing of, 33
Tulane University, 95
Wanzer, Lucy, 175
Warren, Mrs. Mercy, 108, 256
Washington, George, quoted, 88
Wellesley College, 46
Wesley, Susanna, 208
Wesleyan Female College, the, 92
Western States and Territories,
order of admission into Union,
55
Wheatley, Phillis, 108
White, Andrew D., quoted on co-
education, 80
Wilkins, Mary, 120
Willard, Emma Hart, 91; bio-
graphical sketch of, 30
Tyler, Moses Coit, quoted on co- Willard, Frances E., 270; chapter
Unions: Illinois Woman's Alli-
ance, 343; Protective Agency for
Women and Children, of Chicago,
342; Woman's National Indus-
trial, 137; women's educational
by, 399
Willets, Mary, 184
William and Mary College, char-
Willis, Rev. Olympia Brown, 214
Wisconsin, University of, 74
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 28, 150, 260
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