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Emma Willard

1787 - 1870

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Emma Willard (née Hart; February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emma Willard has received more than 290,825 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Emma Willard is the 6,207th most popular writer (down from 5,908th in 2019), the 10,719th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,677th in 2019) and the 797th most popular American Writer.

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  • 290k

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  • 42.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Willard ranks 6,207 out of 7,302. Before her are Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Paolo Giordano, Lorraine Hansberry, Sida Košutić, Glenn Greenwald, and Brian Jacques. After her are Flora Nwapa, Pentti Haanpää, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Cynthia Ozick, Mikhail Gurevich, and China Miéville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Emma Willard ranks 55. Before her are Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, José Tomás Ovalle, Thomas Hodgskin, Thomas Say, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. After her are John J. Crittenden, and Mary Russell Mitford. Among people deceased in 1870, Emma Willard ranks 66. Before her are Pascual Madoz, Jules Pierre Rambur, John P. Kennedy, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Radhanath Sikdar, and Charles Joseph Minard. After her are George Henry Thomas, and William Gilmore Simms.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Willard ranks 10,719 out of 20,380. Before her are Glenn Greenwald (1967), Stuart Pankin (1946), Stephen Dunham (1964), Maggie Siff (1974), John C. Stennis (1901), and Ken Berry (1933). After her are Merritt Giffin (1887), Sleepy John Estes (1899), Susan Rice (1964), Ruth Ford (1911), Mildrette Netter (1948), and Logan Marshall-Green (1976).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Emma Willard ranks 797. Before her are Lester Bangs (1948), Amory Lovins (1947), Mike Godwin (1956), Alain LeRoy Locke (1885), Lorraine Hansberry (1930), and Glenn Greenwald (1967). After her are Cynthia Ozick (1928), Lawrence Venuti (1953), George Alec Effinger (1947), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), and Wallace Stegner (1909).

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