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9 mag 2024 · In 1821 she became a schoolteacher, and in 1823 she and her sister Mary established a girls’ school that four years later became the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, an innovative institution in which, for example, she introduced calisthenics in a course of physical education.
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20 mag 2024 · Today in 1823, the first classes were held at the Hartford Female Seminary, a revolutionary new school for girls founded by author and education pioneer Catharine Beecher. Catherine Beecher became one of the leading educational authorities in 19th century America.
6 giorni fa · She later attended Litchfield Female Academy, where she continued to excel. After the untimely death of her fiancé, Alexander M. Fisher, Beecher dedicated herself to the cause of female education. In 1821, she founded a school for women in New Haven, Connecticut, and in 1823, she co-founded the Hartford Female Seminary with her sister Mary Foote Beecher Perkins.
23 mag 2024 · Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Much of the book was composed at her house in Brunswick, Maine , where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe , taught at his alma mater , Bowdoin College .
27 mag 2024 · In 1823, Beecher and her sister Mary founded the Hartford Female Seminary. In most female schools of the era, students learned primarily fine arts and languages, but Beecher offered a full range of subjects.
9 mag 2024 · presented to the trustees of the Hartford female seminary, and published at their request. By Catharine E. Beecher.
18 mag 2024 · Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist. In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement.
