Program for Worthington Female College Annual Exhibition of the Sigourney Literary Society

This program is from the Worthington Female College's Annual Exhibition of the Sigourney Literary Society, which took place on March 10th, 1858. The program is a mix of musical selections and recitations of poems and essays from students of the Female College. The Literary Society was likely named for educator, historian and Christian Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (b. 1791, d. 1865), who wrote essays and poems that are often described as "moral and didactic." Sigourney founded a women's seminary in Connecticut in 1811, and eventually published works in magazines and books.

Names on the program include Miss M. Jones, Miss Lydia Snow, Miss R. Preston, Miss H.F. Carter, Miss E.A. Carper, Miss O.H. White, Miss Henrietta Jackson, Miss M.Therese Goble, Miss Fannie M. Davis, Miss E.E. Allen and Professor E.E. Schirner.