Provisional Notes |
- Married to John Willard, a physician 28 years her senior
- Widowed 1825
-Re-married Christopher C. Yates 1837
- Divorced 1843
Number of children: 4 step children from John Willard's previous marriages. 1 son with John, named John Willard Hart.
Her father was a farmer; he encouraged to read and included her in discussions of politics and philosophy at home.
School education from the age of 15 in Berlin (US)
Authorial attribution:
- Married name (first husband)
Profession(s) and other activities:
- Social-cultural activist: fought for the first women's school for higher education
- Teacher/governess: opened her own boarding school for women in 1814, tried to improve the curriculum for girls (including subjects such as mathematics and philosophy)
- Historian
Collaboration/connections with male authors: co-authored A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison and Classification with William Channing Woodbridge.
MCL Dec2013 HERA |