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Emma Willard
 
Name:   Emma Willard
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Feb 23, 1787
 
Date of Death:   Apr 15,  1870
 
Profession:   Activist
 
 
 
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
 
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In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
 
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
 
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