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Emma Willard: Daughter of Democracy
192924904Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped book is moderately worn top front corner bumped with slight fraying to cloth exposing board a bit light rectangular stain from removed label on front pastedown; jacket has various chips along top and bottom edges and at corners. Biography of a pioneering advocate for women's rights "the outstanding figure in the movement for the higher education of women in America . . . the first woman to make definite experiments to prove the female mind capable of comprehending higher studies and the first woman publicly to take a stand for the higher education of women." Among her many accomplishments Willard 1787-1870 founded the first school for women's higher education in the U.S. the Troy Female Seminary in Troy New York later renamed the Emma Willard School and still in operation today as a college-prep day and boarding school. She also wrote a number of geography and history textbooks the latter of which somewhat radically for their day chronicled the achievements of women as well as men and promoted the idea that the status of women in a given society was the primary measurement of whether that society could be described as "civilized." . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
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