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Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut was established in 1823, by Catharine Beecher, making it one of the first major educational institutions for women in the United States. By 1826 it had enrolled nearly 100 students.
Beecher (the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe) founded the Hartford Female Seminary in 1823, promoted female education and teaching in the American West in the 1830s, and in 1851 started the American Women's Educational Association.
In 1823, Beecher and her sister Mary founded the Hartford Female Seminary. In most female schools of the era, students learned primarily fine arts and languages, but Beecher offered a full range of subjects.
12 de sept. de 2021 · Hartford Female Seminary, 1856. Founder of Schools for Women. Beecher’s early career was devoted to promoting education for women and the evolution of education as a profession. After Fisher’s death, Beecher and her sister Isabella founded a school for young women in Hartford, which in 1824 became the Hartford Female Seminary.
Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, bravely begun in the spring of 1823 with seven students in a single room above the White Horse harness shop, was destined to take a significant place in the history of the education of women.
1823: Hartford Female Seminary: Beecher co-founded the Hartford Female Seminary, which was a school to train women to be mothers and teachers. It began with one room and seven students; within three years, it grew to almost 100 students, with 10 rooms and 8 teachers.
When Catharine Beecher’s fiancé died at sea in 1822, she used the small inheritance he bequeathed to her to co-found the Hartford Female Seminary, an innovative school that offered young women the opportunity to study subjects that had traditionally been part of the male curriculum.
