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Beecher, Catharine E(sther)
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Beecher, Catharine E[sther]
(1800–1878), daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her work as an educator and reformer included the founding of schools for young ladies at Hartford (1824) and Cincinnati, and main responsibility for the founding of women's colleges in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Her writings include An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837); The Evils Suffered by American Women and … Children (1846); Women Suffrage (1871), on a movement she opposed; and Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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