Resources used in this project:

 

Photos:

 

Annie Coleman Peyton from Mississippi History Now, http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/

articles/379/the-history-of-mississippi-university-for-women.

 

Industrial Institute and School, 1885 from Mississippi History Now.

 

"Junior Class of 1891 Showing Precise Uniforms," 1891.1st item, 13th folder,

lot 51. Mississippi University for Women.

 

1902 Members of the "Floradora Club". 33rd item in 13th folder.

 

Older Annie Coleman Peyton, no date. 25th item in 13th folder.

 

Additionally, all photos of original documents indicated by the underlined phrases

can be found at my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/104359744@N07/

 

Secondary Sources:

 

Bridget Smith Pieschel, The History of Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Historical Society, March 2012. Accessed October 17, 2013. http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/379/the-history-of-mississippi-university-for-women.

 

David Sansing, Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990).

 

Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

 

Mary Lou Peyton, "A Mississippi Woman" Annie Coleman Peyton, 1852-1898, Fant Memorial Library Archives.

 

Mississippi History Now, The Mississippi Constitution of 1890 as originally adopted, Mississippi Historical Society, 2000. Accessed October 17, 2013. http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/103/index.php?s=extra&id=270.

 

Sarah D. Neilson, The History of Mississippi State College for Women.

 

Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman, “Pauline Van de Graaf Orr: Feminist Education in Mississippi,” in Mississippi Women: Their Lives, Their Histories, ed. Martha Swain, et al (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003),
72-91.

 

Sheldon Scott Kohn, The Literary and Intellectual Impact of Mississippi’s Industrial Institute and College, 1884-1920. PhD diss., Georgia State University, 2007. Accessed September 15, 2013. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=english_diss.

 

Primary Sources:

 

Edward H. Clarke. Sex in Education; Or, a Fair Chance for Girls. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18504/18504-h/18504-h.htm.

 

All archival primary sources used were found at Mississippi University for Women's Archives, where additional information on Annie Coleman Peyton and the founding of Mississippi University for Women can be found:

 

1100 College Street, Columbus, Mississippi 39701

Hours: Monday- Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM by appointment

Phone: (662) 241-6288

Email: dswebb@as.muw.edu