“His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fe...”
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Emma Willard was an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Willard
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“His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fe...”
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“Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find...”
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“In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.”
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