Women’s History

As one of the country’s preeminent women’s colleges for nearly a century and a half, Bryn Mawr has built extensive collections on women writers, artists, and activists, as well as collections that document women’s daily lives.  Included are the papers of prominent women associated with Bryn Mawr, including M. Carey Thomas, Bryn Mawr’s second president and a leading women's rights advocate; pamphlets, newspapers, and ephemera from the suffrage campaigns in the United States and internationally; and strong collections of the published writings of Renaissance Italian women poets, 18th century French women novelists, works on domestic life and cookery.