Rhian Muschett (’23) researched Hannah Taylor as a final project for the spring 2022 course “Telling Bryn Mawr Histories.” She expanded her research as a summer 2022 Who Built Bryn Mawr? undergraduate fellow. In her biography of her great-uncle, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, Joseph Wright Taylor (1810-1880), Margaret Taylor MacIntosh only once directly […]
Parents who sent their daughters to Bryn Mawr College in its earliest years may have done so with apprehension. In the late nineteenth century, social propriety required young women to be supervised and guided. Bryn Mawr’s founder, Joseph Wright Taylor, certainly shared this concern. In his will, which was drafted in 1877 and articulated the […]
It is perhaps ironic that one of the earliest proposals for Bryn Mawr College was written by a woman whose name our community has largely forgotten. During a period when the College was predominantly discussed in letters exchanged between middle-aged men, a twelve-page printed essay by a twenty-something woman stands out as an intriguing anomaly— […]