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Emma Willard, American educator whose work in women’s education, particularly as founder of the Troy Female Seminary, spurred the establishment of high schools for girls and of women’s colleges and coeducational universities. Learn more about Willard’s life and career.
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Mar 18, 2016 · As an early reformer, Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870) was a staunch advocate for advancing access to education for women in the middle years of 19th century. Founding the Troy Female Seminary in 1821, located in Troy, New York, Willard helped educate over 12,000 women who attended the school during its first 50 years.
In 1838 Willard retired from the academy to devote her time to improving public schools. She organized teachers’ conventions; developed model schools; and gave lectures on teaching, textbooks, and the need for adequate teacher salaries and proper schoolhouses.
Founder of Troy Seminary, writer of textbooks, and partisan for the common-school movement who advocated female control of women's education with support from public funds and promoted change while urging stability during a boisterous historical era.
Brilliant Businesswoman. In the late 18th century, it was considered against the will of God to teach girls math, so she taught herself geometry when she was 12. She grew up to be a pioneer for girls’ schooling, proving to the world that it wasn’t dangerous for women to be educated.
Emma Hart Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
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Willard’s intent was expressly patriotic, her trappings self-consciously classical. Her maps of time were ways of situating the nation as a natural successor to the empires of old, which flowed from the divine act of creation.
