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Would you like to learn more about Mount Holyoke College and Mary Lyon?

Mary Lyon's life and work are documented by primary sources in the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. These materials include her correspondence and publications, books that were part of her personal library, and an extensive collection of unpublished writings which outline her ideas concerning education, teaching, and religion. The Archives also contain the papers of her Byfield Seminary teacher, Joseph Emerson, and colleague, Zilpah Grant.

More Related Web Sites

• A general history of education in the U.S. can be found in The Volume Library, Book 1: Education, History of American Education
• Mary Lyon's birthplace, Buckland, Massachusetts
• The National Women's History Project has information about National Women's History Month (March, 1997) and lots of related links.
• The Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association
• Mount Holyoke maintains a Web site, on behalf of the Women's College Coalition, which promotes gender-equity in science and math education. It's called Expect the Best from a Girl. That's What You'll Get.

Suggested Books about Mary Lyon:

A Fire in Her Bones, the Story of Mary Lyon, by Dorothy Schack Rosen (Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 1994)

Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates, by Elizabeth Alden Green (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1979)