1. Zur Geschichte von Mount Holyoke siehe: Arthur C. Cole.: A Hundred Years of Mount Holyoke College: The Evolution of an Educational Idea. New Haven 1940; Frances Lester Warner: On a New England Campus. Boston/New York 1937; Elizabeth Alden Green: Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates. Hanover 1979; Lisa Natale Drakeman: Seminary Sisters: Mount Holyoke’s First Students: 1937–1849. o.O. 1988; Beth Brandford Gilchrist: The Life of Mary Lyon. Boston 1910; Bonnie Shmurak/Bonnie S. Handler:,Castle of Science’: Mount Holyoke’s College and the Preparation of Women in Chemistry, 1837–1941. In: History of Education Quarterly 32, 2, Herbst 1992; S. 315–341; Sarah D. Stow: History of Mount Holyoke’s Seminary during its First Half Century, 1837–1887. South Hadley 1887; Charlotte King Shea: Mount Holyoke College 1875–1910: The Passing of the Old Order. unverdff. Diss. 1983.
2. Zu der Herkunft der promovierten Dozentinnen in Mount Holyoke siehe: Margaret Rossiter: Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore/London 1982, 35, S. 144–158.
3. M. Elizabeth Tidball/Vera Kistiakowsky: Baccalaureate Origins of American Scientists and Scholars. In: Science 193, 1976, S. 646–652.
4. Die Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Berufe und der Professionalisierung in den USA ist unüberschaubar. Zentral Mr den hier behandelten Zusammenhang sind folgende: Paul Mattingly: The Classless Profession: American Scholmen in the Nineteenth Century. New York 1975. Burton J. Bledstein: The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York 1976; Gerald Geison (Hg.): Professions and Professional Ideologies in America. Chapel Hill/London 1983; Samuel Haber: The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750–1900. Chicago 1991; Alexandra Oleson/John Voss (Hg.): Organization of Knowledge in Modem America, 1860–1920. Baltimore/London 1976; Peter Dobkin Hall: The Organization of American Culture, 1700–1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality. New York 1982; Thomas L. Haskell: The Emergence of Professional Social Science. Urbana, III. 1977; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt: The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science 1848–1860. Urbana, Ill. 1976; Joyce Antler: The Educated Woman and Professionalization 1890–1920. unveröff. Dias, SUNY Stony Brook, 1977; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt: In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830–1880. In: SIGNS 4, 1978, S. 81–96; Margaret Rossiter 1982:Kap. 2,3, 4, 7.
5. Kohlstedt 1976.