Abstract
century confronted a dilemma made famous by Jane Addams in her autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull House, and her essay, Filial Relations: when graduates returned home from college eager to apply their knowledge and skills to the larger realm, parents, refusing to sanction the legitimacy of this claim, reasserted familial authority. The daughter, still regarded as a possession despite her years at college, submitted, though she felt wronged. The result, said Addams, was an unhappy woman, restless and miserable, consumed by vain regrets and desires. ' In this essay, I shall examine the formative place of familial relationships in the after-college lives of educated women of this era, and shall suggest a modification of the social vs. claim which Addams described.2 Although as Addams suggested, familial attachments often prevented individuals from using their higher education in a manner commensurate with the promise of the college years, the role of the family
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