Kathleen Sprows Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832493
- eISBN:
- 9781469605999
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889848_cummings.6
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter focuses on the time when Sister Julia McGroarty presided over the opening of Trinity College for Catholic women in Washington, D.C. McGroarty, the American provincial superior of the ...
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This chapter focuses on the time when Sister Julia McGroarty presided over the opening of Trinity College for Catholic women in Washington, D.C. McGroarty, the American provincial superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SND), had by that point dedicated more than fifty years of her life to educating Catholic young women and girls. The success of her final and most ambitious venture had depended in large part on her ability to underscore the essential differences between the future Trinity student and the threatening New Woman. Early publicity for the college had emphasized that “while the New Woman, with her head full of vagaries, is reconstructing the Universe, Trinity College will offer to her Catholic sisters an opportunity to accrue knowledge which, though adapting itself to all rightful demands of the period, is firmly wedded to that unchanging faith which has lifted women of all ages to her true position.”Less
This chapter focuses on the time when Sister Julia McGroarty presided over the opening of Trinity College for Catholic women in Washington, D.C. McGroarty, the American provincial superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SND), had by that point dedicated more than fifty years of her life to educating Catholic young women and girls. The success of her final and most ambitious venture had depended in large part on her ability to underscore the essential differences between the future Trinity student and the threatening New Woman. Early publicity for the college had emphasized that “while the New Woman, with her head full of vagaries, is reconstructing the Universe, Trinity College will offer to her Catholic sisters an opportunity to accrue knowledge which, though adapting itself to all rightful demands of the period, is firmly wedded to that unchanging faith which has lifted women of all ages to her true position.”
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832493
- eISBN:
- 9781469605999
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889848_cummings
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of ...
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American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the “New Woman”; and Catholics' struggle to define their place in American culture. It highlights four women: Chicago-based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women's colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy, SSJ; and Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor, public figure, and anti-suffragist. The book uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.Less
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the “New Woman”; and Catholics' struggle to define their place in American culture. It highlights four women: Chicago-based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women's colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy, SSJ; and Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor, public figure, and anti-suffragist. The book uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.
