Willard, Emma Hart (1787 - 1870)
| Short name | Willard, Emma Hart |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/54499159/ |
| First name | Emma Hart |
| Birth name | Willard |
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| Date of birth | 1787 |
| Date of death | 1870 |
| Flourishing | - |
| 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 |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Willard, Emma Hart was ...
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| Place(s) of Residence | United States |
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Receptions of Willard, Emma Hart, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
| 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)
Authorial attribution:
- Married name (first husband)
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.
MCL Dec2013 HERA