Oberlin College

Antoinette Brown graduated from Monroe Academy at the age of fifteen. A few years later she enrolled in Oberlin Collegiate Institute 's writing programme.

Antoinette Brown (later Blackwell) began studying in the literary programme at Oberlin Collegiate Institute , one of the few post-secondary schools at this time that allowed female students.

Antoinette Brown, later ABB , graduated from the Ladies Literary Course at Oberlin Collegiate Institute .

Antoinette Brown, later ABB , returned to Oberlin Collegiate Institute to begin her studies in the department of theology.

Antoinette Brown, later ABB , completed Oberlin 's theological course, but did so without receiving the usual degree and without ordination or official licence to preach.

Nearly sixty years after she completed her education there, Oberlin Collegiate Institute invited ABB to receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.

Apart from her husband, Lucy Stone was ABB 's closest companion. Their lifelong relationship, begun at college, was founded on shared religious views and their determination to improve social conditions for women. Blackwell credits Stone...

Antoinette Brown met Lucy Stone during her first few weeks at Oberlin College . In her journal Brown mentioned her hopes that the two would become friends after she had heard Stone described by an...

During Oberlin 's winter break, ABB taught female students at Rochester Academy in Rochester, Michigan. There she gave her first public speech in the village church.

After graduating from Oberlin in 1850 ABB joined the Lyceum Movement and became a regular speaker in their lecture series. In the mid-nineteenth century this movement for local adult education provided a source of intellectual...

ABB garnered significant recognition as a philosopher, suffragist, and preacher. The honorary degree granted her by Oberlin College in 1908 had more to do with her activism than her authorship. Her writings were not always...

In Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan, 1999 (which began as a series of lectures at Oberlin College ), AC juxtaposes two remarkable figures. Simonides is an ancient lyric...

This work is an example of travel literature, weighing in on such topics as integration of sex and race within the education system of a foreign country. It begins by discussing Oberlin College (the earliest...