The American educator Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935) was a proponent of woman's rights and president of Bryn Mawr.Carey Thomas was born in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 2, 1857, the oldest of 10 children o...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1901, Thomas presents arguments for equality in the higher education of women and men.
A subject like this fairly bristles with possibilities of misu...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1908, Thomas observes the state of women's education at the time and makes recommendations for its future.
The passionate desire of women of m...
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In the following essay, Frankfort describes the evolution of Thomas's vision of the educated woman.
When in 1899 Martha Carey Thomas, the young and spirited president of Bryn Mawr College, a...
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In the following essay, Horowitz explores the ways in which Thomas "created herself" through her reading of romantic literature, and in so doing challenged accepted ideas of a woman�...
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In the following essay, Sicherman analyzes Thomas's reading and its relation to expanding social roles for women in the late nineteenth century.
"[T]he fact is," fourteen-year-...
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Martha Carey Thomas
Critical Essay by M. Carey Thomas
