Correspondence, 1833-1837.

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Correspondence, 1833-1837.

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Letters to her father, David Johnson, and other family members in Newbury, Vt., written as a student at Ipswich Female Seminary. Describes Mary Lyon, Zilpah Grant, her studies, life in several boarding houses, trips to Boston and elsewhere in eastern Massachusetts, and her views on why and how women should be educated.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

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Mary Lyon, educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), was born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her parents were Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and Jemima Shepard Lyon. After her father's death in 1802 and her mother's remarriage 1810, Lyon remained on the family farm as a housekeeper for her brother. She started teaching in 1814 and continued her own education by attending Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts) Acade...

Banister, Zilpah P. Grant (Zilpah Polly Grant), 1794-1874

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Zilpah P. Grant Banister was born on May 30, 1794 in Norfolk, Connecticut. In 1820 she enrolled in the Byfield Female Seminary in Masachusetts under Reverend Joseph Emerson. She then taught at various schools around Norfolk until she began organizing the Adams Female Academy in Londonderry, New Hampshire, which opened in 1824. Here she worked as principal with Mary Lyon as her assistant. In 1828 she received an invitation to organize a school in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She remained at Ipswich Fe...

Johnson family.

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Johnson, Harriet, d. 1865.

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Johnson, D. C. (David Carlton), 1936-

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Johnson was a poet. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1958. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863572 ...

Ipswich Female Seminary (Ipswich, Mass.)

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