Reinventing Marriage: The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer

by Lori Kenschaft

At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, she married Harvard professor of philosophy George Herbert Palmer in 1887. A generation before most educated women dreamt of combining marriage and professional work, the couple forged a new type of union that encouraged satisfying careers for both partners.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252030001
• ISBN13: 9780252030000
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"