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Elisabeth Irwin

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Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (29 August 1880 –16 October 1942) was the founder of the Little Red School House. She was an educator, psychologist, reformer, and declared lesbian,[1] living with her life partner Katharine Anthony and the two children they adopted.

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Life and career

Morningside Cemetery, Gaylordsville, Connecticut

Irwin was born in Brooklyn, to William Henry Irwin and Josephina Augusta Easton. Her father was a cotton merchant. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institute and received her A.B. from Smith College in 1903 and her M.A. from Columbia University in 1923. She was a member of the feminist intellectual club Heterodoxy.

In 1912, while a member of the staff of the Public Education Association, she began work at revising the curriculum for the children at Public School 64. She founded the Little Red School House curriculum in Manhattan in 1921, in the red-painted annex of Public School 61. Her work there, and then at Public School 41, is described in an article for The New York Times as an experiment to demonstrate that "...the broader, more active program of the so-called progressive schools could be carried out under public school conditions."[2]

Faced with funding cuts, it appeared that the experiment would end, but a group of parents came together in an ice-cream parlor, urging her to start her own school and promising financial support. In September 1932, the "Little Red School House" got its own building at Bleecker Street. At first, only primary education was available, but in 1940 a high school was added.

She died in the New York Hospital in October 1942.[3] She was survived by her partner, Katharine Anthony,[4] and their two adopted daughters, Mrs. Howard Gresens of Plandome, New York and Mrs. R.O. Bogue of Pensacola, Florida. Her funeral was conducted in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, where she and Miss Anthony maintained a summer home, having called themselves the "gay ladies of Gaylordsville[5]". She was buried there alongside Miss Anthony.

References

  1. ^ Faderman, Lillian (1999), To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History, Houghton Mifflin Books, p. 29, ISBN 0-618-05697-1
  2. ^ New York Times, p. E7, April 3, 1932 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "ELISABETH IRWIN, LONG AN EDUCATOR; Director of Little Red School House in Ble6cker Street for Many Years is Dead BEGAN IN PUBLIC SYSTEM 1,000 Teachers Annually Visit the Progressive Institution for Observation and Study", New York Times, p. 15, October 17, 1942
  4. ^ Faderman, Lillian (1991), Odd girls and twilight lovers: A history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, (p. 23). New York: Penguin.
  5. ^ Martinac, Paula (1997). The queerest places: A national guide to gay and lesbian historic sites, (p. 113). New York: Henry Holt and Company.
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