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received a secondary school education from the Amherst Academy
and spent one year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
, then run by Mary Lyon
. Both emphasized religious training, but she also studied foreign...
Timeline
1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...
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1836
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
(later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon
: the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.
“Women and the Academy”. Higher Learning in America: History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University.
