"Supported Principally by the Funds of Protestants": Wheeling Female Academy and the Making of the Catholic Community in Antebellum Western Virginia
In antebellum America, no Catholic institution elicited a more mixed response from the nation's Protestant majority than did the convent school. Catholic clergy and women religious attempted to capitalize on this ambivalence by establishing more than 200 female academies throughout the United S...
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American Catholic Historical Society
2003
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American catholic studies
Year: 2003, Volume: 114, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-79 |
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