Young Lady from London
Jackson teaches for a year, and then attends Ohio Wesleyan University, where she excels academically. Her personality emerges from records of her activities, and it’s clear she is an energetic and enterprising young woman. She earns not the usual degree women did, but the regular B.A. degree, graduating with the same credentials men did. Jackson teaches, then returns home when her father dies. She returns to Ohio Weslyan and earns a masters degree. She attends Columbia University and earns a Ph.D., only the second woman in the history of the college to do so. Her life as a female Ph.D. student and Southerner in a great Northern city is discussed. While at Columbia, Jackson studies balladry in her Spanish Literature class, and hears about ballads being sung in the Kentucky hills from two classmates, who in turn learned of this from two lecturers from Berea College.