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Direct linkCole, Elizabeth Robinson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823-1896) founded the first correspondence school in the United States, the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. In the fall of 1873 an educational movement was quietly initiated from her home in Boston, Massachusetts. A politically and socially sophisticated leader, she recognized the need that women felt for continuing…
Descriptors: Educational History, Womens Education, Correspondence Schools, Adult Education
