This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.

Barbara Whitehead is one of the few artists in Texas who regularly work in woodcuts and linoleum prints. This book showcases the best of her work. Whitehead began her career as an illustrator in 1969 for Bill Wittliff's Encino Press. Her work soon became widely known among collectors and lovers of fine printing. With her late husband, Fred, she established Whitehead and Whitehead Publishing Services, providing book and poster illustrations as well as book production and design. Such Austin-area book printers as David Lindsey, Thomas W. Taylor, and David Holman, and university presses at TCU, SMU, the University of New Mexico, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Texas, and others used their designs. Barbara Whitehead's work has a boldness and assertiveness about it that is peculiarly Texan, even when her subject matter is not Texas. Among her favorite projects are ""Growing Up in Texas"", a collection of reminiscences, David L. Lindsey's ""The Wonderful Chirrionera"" and ""Other Tales from Mexican Folklore"", and R. G. Vliet's long poem, ""Clem Maverick: The Life and Death of a Country Singer"". After research, she says, ""I go off in another world somewhere and concentrate on the subject I'm working on, and while I'm driving off to the grocery store or something it comes to me."" The Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos houses the Fred and Barbara Whitehead Collection, donated by the Whiteheads and Bill and Sally Wittliff. The collection contains posters, woodblocks and woodblock and linoleum prints, and work from Encino Press. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Barbara Whitehead is a three-time winner of TIL's design award.

Contents:
Introduction arbara Whitehead 1.Learning the Virtues: Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence Sharon T. Strocchia 2. Equal in Opportunity? The Education of Aristocratic Women 1450-1540 Sharon D. Michalove 3. The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood: Feminine Virtue, Pattern Books and the Fiction of the Clothworking Woman Stacey Shimizu 4. The Rei(g)ning of Women's Tongues in in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics Catherine R. Eskin 5. The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe Howard Edelman 6. To Educate or Instruct? Du Bose and Fenelon on Women Colleen Fitzgerald 7. "Its Frequent Visitor": Death at Boarding School in Early Modern Europe Carolyn C. Lougee 8. 'A Knowledge Speculative and Practical': The Dilemma of Midwives Education in Early Modern Europe Adrianna E. Bakos

This is really my father's book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lear's first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

This book is design to inspire and encourage every reader that's going through sickness, disabilities, cituations, circumstances, test, trials or tribulations to set a goal for your life. Plant it, Water it, Nurture it and watch it grow.

Don't let your cituations determine your future. Be the best that God created you to be. Have no regrets, live life to the fullest.Put God first in everything that you do, and if you fall get back up and try again.Believe and you shall accomplish whatever you set out to do. Don't give up on life no matter what it looks like.