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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Catherine Esther Beecher (1800–1878)

Beecher, Catherine Esther. An American author and educator, daughter of Lyman, and sister of Henry Ward Beecher; born in Easthampton, Long Island, Sept. 6, 1800; died in Elmira, NY, May 12, 1878. She wrote numerous works on education and on the woman question, among which are: ‘The Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church’ (1864); ‘Woman’s Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage’ (1871).