Author: LUTZ,ALMA
Title: Emma Willard Daughter of Democracy
Description: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good Copy of this book bound in green cloth boards with paper title label to spine lettered in black in a Good Only Dust-Jacket that has several chips and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped and there is one former owner's inscription to the front endpaper.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.Emma Willard was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education.She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895,8vo 291pp First US Edition [1929]. Very Good .

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