Ella Weed Explained

Birth Date:	27 January 1853
Birth Place:	Newburgh, New York, United States
Death Place:	New York, New York, United States
Alma Mater:	Vassar College
Known For:	Founding Trustee of Barnard College

Ella Weed (27 January 1853 – 10 January 1894) was an American educator, "the guiding spirit in the first four years" of Barnard College.^[1]

Life

After graduating from Vassar College, Ella Weed became principal of Miss Brown's School for Girls in New York. Annie Nathan Meyer interested her in the effort to establish Barnard College. Weed attracted financial support for the venture, and became the paid chairman of the Academic Committee.^[1]

Works

• A Foolish Virgin: a novel, 1883. A satirical novel about a Vassar graduate who tries to hide her intelligence and education.
• Pearls Strung by Ella Weed, 1898. A posthumously-published anthology of selections from Weed's favorite authors.

Notes and References

1. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Alma mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1993, pp. 135-7