Darlings In Love: A History of Romance Between Women at Hollins University in the Early 20th Century
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
This paper and accompanying sources hope to provide a detailed examination of the world of Darlings at Hollins University between the years 1900 and 1921, using primary sources gathered from The Spinster, the university’s yearbook. As a small, single-sex university established in 1843, Hollins has a unique history of romantic relationships between students. Students who participated in these relationships between the years of 1900 and 1921 were called Darlings. These same-sex relationships flourished at Hollins in the early 20th century, and were a well known and accepted part of life at Hollins. For this study, over a hundred primary sources were gathered from The Spinsters of this time period and used to create a unique picture of the culture and customs of Darlings. These sources are entirely student-composed, and include poems, short stories, play scripts, jokes, cartoons, senior pages, club pages, and portraits. This paper has drawn from the sources found in The Spinster to compose a comprehensive history of the Darlings and their world at Hollins.
Recommended Citation
Nagle, Antonia, "Darlings In Love: A History of Romance Between Women at Hollins University in the Early 20th Century" (2015). Undergraduate Research Awards, Hollins University. 23.
https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/researchawards/23
Antonia Nagle's entry essay for the Undergraduate Research Awards 2015
Comments
Undergraduate Research Awards - 2015 Winner, First-year/Sophomore category