Ancient Geography, as connected with Chronology, and Preparatory to the Study of Ancient History

WILLARD, Emma

Verlag: Oliver D. Cooke & Co, Hartford, 1827

Beschreibung

Second edition, improved. 12mo. 96pp., illustrated with a full-page wood engraved frontispiece and in-text wood engravings. In the original quarter leather and plain paper-covered boards, with the title written in a contemporary hand on the front cover: "Ancient Geography by Emma Willard, Author, and Principal of the Female Seminary at Troy, N.Y." Contemporary owner name and address in pencil on the half-title page ("Wm. A Willard [?], 13 Clinton St., Hartford Ct."). The leather spine back and edges of the boards are rubbed, modest wear with shallow loss at the head and tail of spine, endpapers are moderately foxed, lacking the front free endpaper, else a pleasing very good copy. Emma Willard was founder and principal of the first school in the United States to offer higher education to women: The Female Seminary at Troy, New York. The school survives to this day as the Emma Willard School, and has graduated a great number of distinguished women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lily Spencer-Churchill (Duchess of Marlborough), Jane Fonda, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Willard was a strong advocate of science education for women, as noted by Margaret Rossiter: "Willard, her school, and others like it provided the essential starting point for women in science and the professions." (M.B. Ogilvie, *Women in Science* pp. 19-20). An early work by a woman that helped pave the way for higher education for American women, with an owner's signature that deserves further research. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 534050

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ancient Geography, as connected with ...

Verlag: Oliver D. Cooke & Co, Hartford

Erscheinungsdatum: 1827

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good