Heading South to Teach

“A worthwhile contribution to the scholarship of US education history as well as women’s history. . . . Highly recommended.” — CHOICE

“Has much to offer both lay readers and academics interested in nineteenth-century intellectual and social history. . . . A new and interesting perspective on teaching in the antebellum South.” — ###Journal of Southern History

“Transcends the limitations of studying a single individual and is convincing in its analysis of important aspects of nineteenth-century American life.” — Journal of Social History

“An eminently readable conversation starter for scholars across disciplines.” — Journal of American Culture

“Kim Tolley is a brilliant social historian. Here, she ventures far beyond Hutchison’s diary to find details and build a deep context, searching local newspapers, combing census returns and church records, and exhausting every other source that would reveal aspects of Hutchison’s life. Tolley works in a number of fields in this book and makes fascinating contributions to all of them.” — Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia

“Heading South to Teach vividly and effectively brings Susan Nye Hutchison’s career, communities, and writings to life in an engaging fashion, shedding new light on women’s religious, educational, professional, marital, and communal experiences in nineteenth-century America.” — Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University