Pearl Sydenstricker (later PSB
) graduated with a BA from Randolph-Macon Woman's College
at Lynchburg, Virginia, where she had enrolled in 1910.
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Education
Pearl S. Buck
Her parents settled on sending Pearl to Randolph-Macon Woman's College
, founded ten years before this at Lynchburg, Virginia, because they could afford the fees there, and because it offered the best education in...
Material Conditions of Writing
Pearl S. Buck
In February 1899, when Pearl Sydenstricker (later PSB
) was six and her little brother had just died of diphtheria, she wrote (with her mother
's help) a letter to the Christian Observer, published...
Occupation
Pearl S. Buck
After graduating, PSB
planned an academic career in the USA. She went to work as a teaching assistant to her psychology professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College
, as a step towards a scholarship for graduate...