Emma Willard

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Emma Willard was a pioneering American educator and women's rights advocate who founded the first school in the United States to offer higher education for women, the Troy Female Seminary.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf educational institution
educator
human
school founder
women's rights advocate
advocatedFor curricula for women comparable to men's education
public support for female seminaries
birthName Emma Hart
child John Willard Hart
country United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1787-02-23
dateOfDeath 1870-04-15
educatedAt Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
surface form: Berlin Academy

home schooling
familyName Willard
fieldOfWork education
women's education
women's rights
founded Middlebury Female Seminary
Troy Female Seminary
foundedBy Emma Willard self-linksurface differs
fullName Emma Willard self-linksurface differs
surface form: Emma Hart Willard
givenName Emma
honoredBy statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection (Vermont)
inception 1821
influenced development of women's colleges in the United States
knownFor advocacy for female education reform
founding the first school in the United States to offer higher education for women
pioneering higher education for women in the United States
languageSpoken English
laterKnownAs Emma Willard School
locatedIn Troy, New York
surface form: Troy, New York, United States
movement women's rights movement
namedAfter Emma Willard School
notableWork A Plan for Improving Female Education
founding of Troy Female Seminary
occupation educator
school principal
writer
placeOfBirth Berlin, Connecticut
surface form: Berlin, Connecticut, United States
placeOfDeath Troy, New York
surface form: Troy, New York, United States
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
residence Middlebury, Vermont
surface form: Middlebury, Vermont, United States

Troy, New York, United States
sexOrGender female
spouse John Willard
surface form: John Hart Willard

John Willard
wrote A Plan for Improving Female Education
History of the United States, or Republic of America
Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain
Universal History in Perspective

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Emma Willard School foundedBy Emma Willard
this entity surface form: Emma Hart Willard
Emma Willard School namedAfter Emma Willard
this entity surface form: Emma Hart Willard
Emma Willard fullName Emma Willard self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Emma Hart Willard
Emma Willard foundedBy Emma Willard self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Troy Female Seminary