biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1797–1849)
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| biography:
| Educator, born in Buckland, Massachusetts, USA. After teaching in Massachusetts and New Hampshire seminaries, she was the planner and founding principal (1837–49) of the first permanent women's college in the USA, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later College). She modelled the curriculum on that of Amherst College, but hired only female permanent faculty. |
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