Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South Ontario Principals' Council This book is both a

This book is both a wake-up call and a beacon of hope

imagination has been marginalised -- depicted as a way of escaping reality

presenting what was deemed by her contemporaries a faithful and candid representation of nineteenth-century France

while maintaining its privileges as the established Church of the State until the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931

Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South Ontario Principals' Council This book is both aCeleste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive Era South follows a Civil War orphan's transformation from a Southside Virginia public school teacher to a nationally known progressive educator and feminist. In this vital intellectual biography, Rebecca S. Montgomery places feminism and gender at the center of her analysis and offers a new look at the postbellum movement for southern educational reform through the life of Celeste Parrish.