Woman's Education

"Inevitably, the story this time around -- budget and intellectual battles, fund-raising and program development -- is not as soaring or romantic [as her earlier memoirs]. But if Ker Conway's midlife narrative is less inherently dramatic than her earliest chronicles, the quietly stirring A WOMAN'S EDUCATION also tells an exceptional story...[C]risp and engaging....Ker Conway uses the same alert and sometimes luminous language of her earlier books, and the decisive history is accented with emotionally resonant descriptions of the New England landscape, her gusto for the lively sounds of women working and playing, the visceral reaction of students to a female role model and president...This bit of Ker Conway's story underscores her contribution to American society, a contribution as enduring as her presidential portrait that hangs at Smith, appropriately presiding over the Sophia Smith archive of women's history.Conway, Jill Ker is the author of 'Woman's Education', published 2001 under ISBN 9780679421009 and ISBN 0679421009.