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"Westover, a girls' school in Middlebury, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 by emancipated "New Women," educator Mary Hillard and architect Theodate Pope Riddle. Landscape designer Beatrix Farrand did the plantings. It has evolved from a finishing school for the Protestant elite, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love, to a meritocracy for pupils from many backgrounds and from around the world. The fascinating account of the ups and downs of this female community is the subject of Laurie Lisle's lively and well-researched book.
The author describes the innovations of the idealistic minister's daughter who was the first principal, her intellectual successor who turned it into a college preparatory school in the 1930s, the quiet headmaster who managed to keep it open during the turbulent 1970s, and the prize-winning mathematics teacher, wife, and mother who leads the high school today."--Jacket.
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Girls' schools, Westover School, Schools, Connecticut, history, HistoryPlaces
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Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
2012, Wesleyan University Press
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Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
2010, University Press of New England
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Westover: giving girls a place of their own
2008, Wesleyan University Press
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