A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck

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George Machan Buck, Gertrude Buck’s father, a Civil War veteran and a judge and attorney in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Courtesy of Kindred Roots Genealogical Society. Gertrude Buck’s mother, Anne Bradford Buck, a descendent of Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth. Courtesy of Kindred Roots Genealogical Society. Gertrude Buck’s picture and signature (Vassarion, 1903). Courtesy of Special Collections , Vassar College Libraries. Undated picture of Gertrude Buck. Courtesy of Kindred Roots Genealogical Society. Sketch of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College 1897–1922 (Warren, “In Remembrance ”). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Detroit Normal Training School graduating class of January 1898 with Harriet M. Scott, principal of the school (center). Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Laura Johnson Wylie (composite ) holding a fishing pole labeled “inductive method” (Vassarion, 1901). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Laura Johnson Wylie, a member of the English Department at Vassar College from 1895 to 1924 (Woodbridge, Miss Wylie). Courtesy of Special Collections , Vassar College Libraries. Laura Johnson Wylie and Gertrude Buck with one “among the long succession of ‘little ones’” (Warren, “112 Market Street” 143). The picture is featured in Evert Sprinchorn’s “Stagestruck in Academe: Acceptance of Theater as a Liberal Art Was No Overnight Success.” Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Gertrude Buck and Laura Johnson Wylie (Laura Johnson Wylie Biographical File Box 4). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Laura Johnson Wylie and students (Laura Johnson Wylie Biographical File Box 5). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Debate: 1908 committee at work (Simpson, “Helen Lockwood’s College Years”). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Wellesley-Vassar Debate, 25 April 1903 (Vassarion, 1903). Courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries. Portrait of Helen Drusilla Lockwood (Swain, “Helen Drusilla Lockwood”). Courtesy of Special Collections , Vassar College Libraries. Picture of Mary Yost included with the article “The Need of the CommunityMind : In Which the Dean of Women Says Some Things That Every Stanford Man and Woman Should Think About,” published December 1921, three months after her arrival at Stanford. Courtesy of Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California. ...