Emma Hart Willard

By: Taviana smith Emma Hart Willard
Emma hart Willard impacted a lot in history. Emma created the first major girl school. Called ‘Troy Female Seminary’ in Troy, New York. She was born on February 23rd, 1787 and she died on April 15th, 1870. So she lived for 83 years. She was remembered for her amazing efforts on behalf of woman’s education. Emma was a very important woman she was a woman’s rights activist, she gave women a chance and she changed a lot of things for everyone not just for women.

Early life
Emma was the sixteenth out of seventeen children. She was fortunate to have a father who believed in educating all of his children including his sons and daughters. She attended local schools and then she began teaching near her home in 1804. In 1807 she went to Middlebury, Vermont to run an all-girls female academy there. Two years later she got married to a local doctor named John Willard. Then she retired from teaching to travel and lecture on equal opportunities for women teachers and improvements to public schools. Then she started teaching again in 1814 and she opened a girl school in her home to her family with finances. A few years later she wrote a plan for improving female education for improving female education. In …show more content…
Although most were wealthy and worked mostly as wives and mothers, many of her graduates became teachers, writers and social activists. During her lifetime the school was for-profin institution. Emma also became financially successful, both from the profits from the school and from her profits from her best -selling text-books she authored. She left daily management of the school to her son and daughter-in-law in 1838. Also in 1838 that was the year she made a disastrous second marriage. She spent her last thirty years of her life traveling and writing. Then she died in 1870, on April 15th. She was 83 years old the year she