Title: Ossoli Circle Minute Books (copies)

Date/Date Range :   1903 October-1908 May

Extent: 0.2 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains copies of two minute books of the Ossoli Circle from October 1903 through Anniversary Day of the Circle in May 1908.

Call number: MS-2517

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of the UT Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Ossoli Circle Minute Books (copies), MS-2517. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of two folders.

The Ossoli Circle was the first women's club in Tennessee, formed on November 20, 1885, by Lizzie Crozier French (1851-1926), daughter of lawyer John H. Crozier. Intended to advance their intellectual and moral development, it was named after intellectual and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850). From 1885 to 1890, the Tennessee Female Instituted served as home for the Circle and Mary B. Temple, daughter of Judge O.P. Temple, as president. The Circle called for delegates of the state's women's clubs to meet in Knoxville and organize the Tennessee Federation of Women's Clubs in 1896. It also accomplished the establishment of traveling libraries, aid to mountain schools, the improvement of Tennessee laws affecting women, and the establishment of a state vocational school for girls.

This collection contains copies of two minute books of the Ossoli Circle from October 1903 through Anniversary Day of the Circle in May 1908.

See also MS-0091 for Ossoli Circle minute books.

• Ossoli Circle (Knoxville, Tenn.).
• Women -- Societies and clubs -- Tennessee -- Knoxville.