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Catharine Esther Beecher, a member of the famous Beecher family, was an educator and author. She was born in East Hampton, NY on September 6, 1800, and spent much of her childhood in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Beecher began the Hartford Female Seminary and later started the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In addition to Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, and several other books, she wrote for Appleton's Journal, Christian Spectator, and the Connecticut Observer. In a September 4, 1869 piece in Appleton's Journal, "Something for Women better than the Ballot," Beecher discusses the American Woman's Educational Association's proposed endowments for a women's institution.
She passed away on May 12, 1878.
Beecher began the Hartford Female Seminary and later started the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In addition to Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, and several other books, she wrote for Appleton's Journal, Christian Spectator, and the Connecticut Observer. In a September 4, 1869 piece in Appleton's Journal, "Something for Women better than the Ballot," Beecher discusses the American Woman's Educational Association's proposed endowments for a women's institution.
She passed away on May 12, 1878.
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Truth Stranger than Fiction: a Narrative of recent Transactions, which obtain in a distinguished American University Boston: Phillips, Sanpson & Company, 1850.
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Beecher, Catherine E. "Something for Women better than the Ballot,". Appleton's Journal, Volume 2, Issue 23, Sept 4, 1869; pp. 81-84.
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- Beecher, Catherine Esther. Adams, Oscar Fay, 1855-1919 A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905, p. 23
- Evening times-Republican. (Marshalltown, Iowa), 21 April 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1909-04-21/ed-1/seq-6/>
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