| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School. By Andrea Hamilton. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xviii, 237 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-7880-2.)

Andrea Hamilton, an adjunct lecturer of English at Southern Methodist University, faced more hurdles than most scholars do in publishing her dissertation. Her manuscript on the Bryn Mawr School was accepted by Johns Hopkins University Press, but school lawyers, citing an agreement Hamilton had signed in order to access archival materials, refused to allow its publication. Bryn Mawr provided the press negative reviews by two historians it had "independently" engaged to examine Hamilton's study, including one by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, sister of the headmistress. Consequently, Johns Hopkins withdrew its contract. Hamilton was blindsided by the opposition since she had worked cooperatively with school archivists and officials for years. Eventually, she hired a lawyer to negotiate with the school. After the Chronicle of Higher Education (see Jennifer K. Ruark, "The History That May Never Be Read," April 26, 2002) and the Baltimore Sun (Mike Bowler, "Outsider Takes Scholarly Look at Bryn Mawr," May 30, 2004) published stories on Hamilton's plight, the historian Laura Kalman organized a petition campaign on her behalf. Over 140 scholars signed, and the Bryn Mawr School relented, agreeing to the book's publication with a disclaimer that "This work is not an official or sanctioned history of The Bryn Mawr School" (p. v).

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