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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 277,571 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Emma Willard is the 5,931st most popular writer, the 11,704th most popular biography from United States and the 876th most popular American Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 3.14

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Willard ranks 5,931 out of 5,755Before her are Kim Leine, Renate Dorrestein, Kevin Poulsen, Elizabeth Inchbald, Walter Besant, and William Empson. After her are Russell Simmons, Ramon Solsona i Sancho, R. D. Blackmore, Wladimir Kaminer, Coventry Patmore, and Andrew Kevin Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Emma Willard ranks 48Before her are François Sudre, John Richardson, Pedro Vélez, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, José Tomás Ovalle, and Thomas Hodgskin. After her is John J. Crittenden. Among people deceased in 1870, Emma Willard ranks 61Before her are Friedrich Boie, Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, Auguste Duméril, Jules Pierre Rambur, Radhanath Sikdar, and George Henry Thomas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Willard ranks 11,704 out of 18,182Before her are Amy Coney Barrett (1972), Mary Kay Bergman (1961), Tim Schafer (1967), Greg K. (1965), Chris Dodd (1944), and Patrick Joseph Hayes (1867). After her are Edmund Lowe (1890), Herbert Goldstein (1922), Blake Griffin (1989), Ron Freeman (1947), Nate Diaz (1985), and Auliʻi Cravalho (2000).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Emma Willard ranks 876Before her are J. P. Donleavy (1926), Anthony Boucher (1911), Amory Lovins (1947), Robert Hunter (1941), Sarah Winnemucca (1844), and Kevin Poulsen (1965). After her are Russell Simmons (1957), Andrew Kevin Walker (1964), Sarah Josepha Hale (1788), Wayne C. Booth (1921), Oliver La Farge (1901), and Stanley Kunitz (1905).