The quack's daughter : a true story about the private life of a victorian college girl / by Greta Nettleton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781609382438
- 1609382439
- Keck, Cora, 1865-1921
- Vassar College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography
- Keck, Cora, 1865-1921
- Vassar College
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women musicians -- United States -- Biography
- Women physicians -- United States -- Biography
- Davenport (Iowa) -- Biography
- Femmes -- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Musiciennes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Femmes médecins -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators
- EDUCATION -- Higher
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae
- Women -- Education (Higher)
- Women musicians
- Women physicians
- Iowa -- Davenport
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 378.0082 23
- LD7182.9 .N47 2014eb
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Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at "the first great educational institution for womankind" turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar's School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second
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