honorarydegree

Sarah Barnwell - graduating?? (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• skillful north said:

  tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=E016 from the link Sarah Barnwell Elliott, novelist, short story writer, and advocate of women's rights, was born in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Episcopal Church who was a leader in the founding of the University of the South at Sewanee. Her education consisted of private tutoring and some study at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Though she lived for a time in New York (1895-1902), Elliott's principal home was Sewanee, where she died and was buried. She never married. My guess it was an honorary degree.

• Wystan said:

  "The responsibility of raising her nephews drew Elliott back to Sewanee in 1904, where she continued her energetic support for women's rights as a lecturer essayist, and suffrage leader. These efforts served as the catalyst for Tennessee's becoming the critical thirty-sixth state and the only southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment (1921), which guaranteed women the vote. In 1913 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by the University of the South." -----Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender (2002), p. 232.

• Richard Norton said:

  I started a Wikipedia entry for her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Barnwell_Elliott