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Emma (Hart) Willard Collection, 1809–1994

 

Unpublished Information on Emma Willard

This series contains unpublished information about Emma Willard. Much of it is in the form of term papers written by students or former students of the Emma Willard School. Of particular interest is a speech written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton entitled "Emma Willard: Pioneer in the Higher Education of Women" delivered by Susan B. Anthony in 1893.
Box Folder Description
10 52 Pages from Minutebook, Columbia Association of Teachers, noting Emma Willard's appearance, February 1850. [photocopy]
6 32 [Promotion of Schools in Connecticut] [pre 1870]
6 33 Madden, Florence, "The Biography of Madam Emma Willard" 1918.
11 27 [Fisher], Dorothy Canfield, "An Escape-Thought" [unpublished manuscript from New York Public Library]
6 34 MacLear, Mary, Skits about Emma Willard, 1964 and 1948.
6 35 Payne, Ina C., Untitled [Biography of Emma Willard, 1814-1824] [pre 1964]
6 36 Paper on Emma Willard's Plan for Improving Female Education [typescript]
6 37 "1832 - and the Cause of Female Education in Greece"
6 38 Unpublished Writings about Emma Willard
11 23 Hazard, Florence Woolsey "Emma Willard", [photocopy]
10 21 Scott, Anne Firor, "Emma Willard: Feminist", presented May 10, 1978 before the Emma Willard School Cum Laude initiates [typescript]
11 11 Ritzlin, Mary McMichael, "Women's Contributions to North American Cartography: Three Profiles.' Presentation for MAGERT (Map and Geography Roundtable of the American Library Association), 1988.
Shelved Wood, Diane Claire, "The Cultural and Intellectual Origins of Emma Willard's Educational Philosophy." (Thesis, M. A., San Jose State University, 1991)
10 22 Buss, Kathleen A., "Emma Willard: Another Look" (Thesis, M. A., San Diego State University, 1993)
10 23 Burley, Sarah E., "The Bodying Forth of a Long-Loved Idea: Emma Willard's Reformulation of School, Family, and Nation." (Thesis, B. A., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1994)
Shelved Mulvihill, Thalia M., "Community in Emma Willard's Educational Thought, 1787-1870" (Thesis, Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1995)
12 24 Ting, Audrey, "Emma Willard: A Revolutionary Educator or Simply a Shrewd Businesswoman?" (Final paper, Emma Willard School history class, 2000)

 

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