Where did Sara Teasedale go to school?

The American poet Sara Teasdale was plagued by ill-health as a child. Because of this, she was home-schooled until the age of nine. It wasn't until she was ten years old that she was finally able to attend school. Initially, she went to the Mary Institute, but transferred to Hosmer Hall a year later. Hosmer Hall was a school for girls in St. Louis. In the late 19th century, when Sara Teasdale was at school, college education for women was very much in its infancy. Hosmer Hall's main purpose was to prepare young ladies for the intellectual rigors of a college education, with an emphasis on subjects such as Latin and mathematics, which were not thought suitable for women at that time. However, the dominant ethos at the school was that studying such subjects would provide excellent mental training for girls that would stand them in good stead for further academic study.