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Willard, Emma Hart (1787 - 1870)

Short name Willard, Emma Hart
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First name Emma Hart
Birth name Willard
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Date of birth 1787
Date of death 1870
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Sex Female
Place of birth Berlin (Connecticut)
Place of death Troy (New York)
Lived in United States
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Education Educated at home, School education, Self-educated
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Willard, Emma Hart was ...
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Place(s) of Residence United States
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History of the United States, or Republic of America (1828) 2 0

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Unknown maker, portrait of Emma Hart Willard, circa 1805 - 1815, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute WRC-P19-1 1805 is portrait of

Wikipedia

- Married to John Willard, a physician 28 years her senior
- Widowed 1825
-Re-married Christopher C. Yates 1837
- Divorced 1843

Number of children: 4 step children from John Willard's previous marriages. 1 son with John, named John Willard Hart.

Her father was a farmer; he encouraged to read and included her in discussions of politics and philosophy at home.

School education from the age of 15 in Berlin (US)

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Profession(s) and other activities:
- Social-cultural activist: fought for the first women's school for higher education
- Teacher/governess: opened her own boarding school for women in 1814, tried to improve the curriculum for girls (including subjects such as mathematics and philosophy)
- Historian

Collaboration/connections with male authors: co-authored A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison and Classification with William Channing Woodbridge.

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