Bromley, Frances M. Diary, 1877

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Title: Bromley, Frances M. Diary, 1877
Date: 1877
Publisher: Vassar College Archives and Special Collections
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Identifier: Box 122
Title: Bromley, Frances M. Diary, 1877
Identifier(s): vassar:2767
Box 122
Creator: Bromley, Frances M.
Physical description (extent): Bound volume; aprox 42p; 4 x 2.75 inches; Iron gall ink on aged paper
Local subject headings: Academics
Subjects -- topical: Women--Diaries
Subjects -- geographic: Castleton (Vt. : Town)
Note: VC Ex 1879
Resource Type: text
Genre: text
Abstract: Frances Bromley (VC Ex 1879) was a prolific diarist, contributing seven diaries to Vassar College that chronicle her life from 1872 to 1877. Bromley's diaries all contain reflections on her daily activities, observations about other people, and literary and biblical quotes. Bromley also writes extensively about illness throughout her diaries. This volume details her time at Vassar College in 1877, during which she realizes that "maybe I won't need any room there next year," (p. 176) foreshadowing her departure from the college at the end of the year. She returns home to Castleton, Vermont, where she eagerly awaits the delivery of Vassar's student literary periodical, "The Miscellany." In Castleton, she resumes her pre-Vassar work as a classroom teacher and private tutor.