Record #:

21686

Author(s):

Stephan, Scott M.

Abstract:

This article looks at Anne Davis, the wife of a Methodist minister and a matron at Wesleyan Female College, and how she was able to exercise her beliefs over her family and the female students. The article also looks at her diary from 1835 onward and connects her actions to her inner beliefs.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 83 Issue 2, Apr 2006, p165-192 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wesleyan Female College (Murfreesboro); Antebellum period, 1820-1861; Davis, Anne Turberville Beale, 1809-1894

Record #:

21376

Author(s):

Stephenson, William E.

Abstract:

Wesleyan Female College was founded in March 1855 by Methodists of the Murfreesboro, North Carolina area. Roughly 100 young women attended the school annually from southern Virginia and northern North Carolina. While there, the young ladies studied music, learned social skills, made new friends and matured both mentally and physically. Both personal and political stresses occurred regularly among those in charge of Wesleyan, predominantly among the families of the schools president, Joseph H. Davis, and the president of the trustees, John Wesley Southall.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Apr 1980, p257-279 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wesleyan Female College (Murfreesboro)