Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s

An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges–Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard–Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges’ architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors–Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.