The Madison Women

Amanda E. Hayes teaches English and composition at Kent State University-Tuscarawas. Raised on her family's farm in Appalachian Ohio, she now researches and writes about regional traditions of writing, storytelling, and education. Her first book, The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric, won the Nancy Dasher Award in 2019.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Place, Culture, and Imagination: A Discussion of Methods Small Stories, Part 1: Sarah McKittrick, Eliza Carpenter, Martha Lindsay 2. The Advantages of Education: A History of Madison College Small Stories, Part 2: Elma Brashear, Austa Porter, M. Kate Wiser, Mary Smith, Mary Stockdale 3. Divided Arguments: Rhetorical Instruction at Madison College Small Stories, Part 3: Sarah and Lizzie Jamison, Violet Scott, Amelia Matthews, Sue Craig 4. Madison College and Women's Education: Acceptance and Resistance Small Stories, Part 4: Cordelia Downard, Bell Coulter, Mollie and Elma Gaston 5. Higher Ideals: The Madison Women and Social Action Small Stories, Part 5: Maggie Hyatt, Kate Green, Lizzie Smith, Nancy Wallace, Mary Lawrence 6. The Future is the Past: Formal Education and Appalachian History Small Stories, Part 6: Sarah Morrison, Emma Campbell 7. What Was Lost, What Remains: Madison College's Sister Schools Small Stories, Part 7: Jennie Moore and Eliza Ralston, Sarah Owens Longsworth, Lizzie Moss Conclusion: Why Does it Matter? Endnotes Bibliography

"This book stands beside Samantha NeCamp's in the work it does to rehabilitate the false stereotype of early Appalachia as anti-education, and is a true recovery project, letting us hear lives and voices otherwise silenced." -Kim Donehower, author of Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance "A mastery of weaving personal and archival research to resurrect a critical time in education in Appalachia. The research . . . lends itself to creating more avenues for study in women's literacy, learning, and lives in Appalachia." -Travis A. Rountree, author of Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out