Upcoming Talk on Women’s Education at the Joel Lane House.

One of my areas of interest and research is education in the Colonial and Early Federal periods in North Carolina. Specifically, I study women’s education. Women’s education was more than needlework and learning to dance. Young ladies were learning Grammar, Mathematics, Languages, and in some Academies and Female Seminaries the rudiments of Astronomy. Needlework and dancing were taught as an additional tuition charge! I am going to give a talk on Thursday, October 20th, 2022, at the Joel Lane House Museum in Raleigh about a group of planter class young ladies who traveled from North Carolina to the Moravian Female Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Visit the Joel Lane House Museum’s website for more details and ticket prices.

https://www.joellane.org/