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Oxford College for Women subject of Women’s History Month Lecture

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Portrait of Valerie Edwards ElliotOn Wednesday, March 14, the Miami University Libraries welcome Valerie Edwards Elliott ’75, manager of the Smith Library of Regional History, for a Women’s History Month lecture on the history of the Oxford College for Women.

Elliott will present a visual overview of this local women’s college from its antecedents in the 1830s through its merger with Miami University in 1928.

Wednesday, March 14 ○ Noon ○ King 320
Free and open to the public

The lecture is free and open to the public, and is produced in partnership with the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, university archival collections and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program.

![The Oxford College for Women graduating class of 1907 pose for a formal portrait.](/images/post-images/18_Womens-History-Month_Web.jpg)
The Oxford College for Women graduating class of 1907 pose for a formal portrait.