More about “Sent to Sherborn”

Retired Stanford history professor Dr. Estelle Freedman will discuss key aspects of the Sherborn Reformatory, a radical new institution run by women for women in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Dr. Freedman is author of several important studies, including her superb books Their Sisters’ Keepers, about turn of the 20th century women’s prison reform, and Maternal Justice, a biography of Miriam Van Waters, the brilliant and controversial Reformatory superintendent in the 1930s-1950s and buried in our own Pine Hill Cemetery. 

Tuesday, March 12th, 7:00-8:30 PM on ZOOM and in the Community Room, Sherborn Library.

This program is HYBRID.  Please register if you are planning to attend on Zoom to receive the link. 

Sponsored by the Sherborn History Center and Museum