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Nell Eckley, Nell Eckley, Walter Farris '10
Nell Eckley, Nell Eckley, Walter Farris '10
All oral histories
Nell Eckley is the wife of Dr. Robert Eckley, President of Illinois Wesleyan University from 1968-1986.
Robert Eckley, Robert Eckley, Nathaniel Strauss '10
Robert Eckley, Robert Eckley, Nathaniel Strauss '10
All oral histories
Dr. Eckley was President of Illinois Wesleyan University from 1968-1986.
Reading Between The Lines; Or, The Literary Lives Of The Davis Family, Amelia Benner, '09
Reading Between The Lines; Or, The Literary Lives Of The Davis Family, Amelia Benner, '09
Honors Projects, History
The books that the Davises read provide an insight into their personal lives while also reflecting the cultural ideologies in which they believed. Although they lived on the Illinois frontier, David and Sarah Davis were clearly products of the literate, Eastern ' middle class. Although David Davis was a voracious reader, most of the books that appear in the letters 'are mentioned by women, in an interesting parallel to the "feminization" of literature that occurred during the first half of-the 19th century. Meanwhile, many historians have pointed out that "middle-class values," such as the cult of domesticity and the idealization …