Books Used at Edgehill

Edgehill is the school Virginia most likely attended.

English

  • Pinneo’s Primary Grammar
  • Greene’s Grammar and Analysis
  • Harrison’s Construction of the English Language

Geography

  • Cornell’s Primary
  • Mitchell’s series
  • Clyde’s Geography
  • Guyot’s Physical Geography

Mathematics

  • Robinson’s Series of Arithmetics
  • Wentworth’s Algebrae, Geometries, and Trigonometry.

Sciences

  • Natural philosophy – the works of Gannot
  • Chemistry – Steele
  • Astronomy – Newcombe
  • Geology – Gray
  • Physiology – Duglison
  • Natural history – Tenny

History

  • Primary class
    • Miss Sewell’s History of Greece and Rome
    • Markham’s Histories of England and France
    • Talhermer’s History of the United States
  • Senior class
    • Student’s History of Greece, Rome, England and France