The story of a woman who made a difference in her world.

This biography traces the life of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841 1916) from her childhood in Alabama through her pioneering accomplishments as a teacher, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in Tuscaloosa in 1841, Tutwiler was encouraged by her father an educational innovator and founder of a private academy in Greene County to pursue academic subjects typically reserved for men. To that end, Henry Tutwiler financed his daughter's studies at Vassar, in Germany and Paris, and under professors at Washington and Lee University in...