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A look at the American woman
Jeff Wrangler:
Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929).
Bates was a good Yankee, born and raised in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. She became a professor at Wellesley.
She spent the summer of 1893 teaching in Colorado Springs. She and some friends made a trip to the summit of Pike's Peak. The view from the mountaintop inspired her to write "America the Beautiful."
The most important person in her life seems to have been another Wellesley professor, Katharine Coman. Scholars are uncertain of the nature of their relationship, although they lived together. This is discussed in the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lee_Bates
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2021, 07:24:01 pm ---Here's another remarkable American woman of the 19th century, Julia Ward Howe.
She's probably best known now for having written "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but she was also an abolitionist. a social reformer, and a women's suffragist.
Her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, found the Perkins School for the Blind, whose most famous alumna was another remarkable woman, Anne Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller (who was pretty remarkable herself).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
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Where did he find the Perkins School for the Blind? ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Sason on March 05, 2021, 04:22:11 pm ---
Where did he find the Perkins School for the Blind? ;D
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I think it was under the bed with the dust bunnies. ...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2021, 07:24:01 pm ---Here's another remarkable American woman of the 19th century, Julia Ward Howe.
She's probably best known now for having written "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but she was also an abolitionist. a social reformer, and a women's suffragist.
Her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, found the Perkins School for the Blind, whose most famous alumna was another remarkable woman, Anne Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller (who was pretty remarkable herself).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
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Wow, a hat trick!
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2021, 05:05:44 pm ---I think it was under the bed with the dust bunnies. ...
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;D
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