The Seminary in The Mansion (Location)

After graduating from high school Linda Snopes enrolls in a school that the novel calls "the Seminary" (156). There is a "Seminary Ridge" in Yoknapatawpha; Gavin Stevens has a poignant moment when he stops there in The Town. But also in The Town Linda attends the Jefferson Female Academy, which in this novel is where several young women go, including Melisandre Backus and Maggie Stevens (217). In The Town, however, after high school Melisandre and Maggie attend the Seminary, which at the end of that novel Charles Mallison calls "a college." Most probably the Seminary is a kind of finishing school - and Charles calls it a college because the young women who go there do so after graduating from high school.