Emma's Maps

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Emma’s Maps
12.5w” x 15.25h”(framed)
$200

Emma Hart Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad, to promote education for women.
Her map-drawing geographic pedagogy became popular in the United States and also influential in American missionary schools in South Asia during the nineteenth century.
Willard cowrote The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases (1823), with American geographer William Channing Woodbridge; Also with Woodbridge she co-authored A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison and Classification. She has been the subject of several biographies. Her geographies are discussed by Calhoun and her histories by Baym.