| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian's Biography. By John G. Reid. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxiv, 228 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-8017-0.)

John G. Reid's biography of the historian Viola Florence Barnes provides a useful and informative analysis of Barnes in her context. Drawing on recent scholarship in women's history, Reid makes gender central to understanding Barnes's life. While Reid emphasizes the importance of separate women's institutions to Barnes's intellectual and personal development, he does not idealize the existence or influence of a separate women's culture on Barnes. As he reveals in his account of the internecine rivalries and conflicts that Barnes experienced during her teaching career at Mount Holyoke College, rather than a locus for the development of a women's community, the college was an institution where class and generational differences divided women. Reid focuses in particular on the tensions between Barnes and Nellie Neilson, another leading woman historian and the chair of the history department at Holyoke for much of Barnes's career there.

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