Women in the 19th Century - Emma Willard (Address Date 1819)
EMMA WILLARD (ADDRESS DATE 1819)
SOURCE: Willard, Emma. "An Address to the Public, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education." An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education. Middlebury, Conn.: J. W. Copeland, 1819.
In the following address, Willard notes the benefits of improved education for women.
The object of this Address, is to convince the public, that a reform, with respect to female education, is necessary; that it cannot be effected by individual exertion, but that it requires the aid of the legislature; and further, by shewing the justice, the policy, and the magnamity of such an undertaking, to persuade the body to endow a seminary for females, as the commencement of such reformation.
The idea of a college for males will naturally be associated with that of a seminary, instituted and endowed by...
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