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Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)
Willard, Emma (Hart). An American educator and author; born in Berlin, CT, Feb. 23, 1787; died at Troy, NY, April 15, 1870. She did much for bettering the education of women. Her books, educational and general, include: ‘A Plan for Improving Female Education’ (1819); ‘A History of the United States’ (1828); ‘Poems’ (1830), containing the popular song ‘Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep’; ‘Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain’ (1833); ‘Universal History’ (1835); ‘Respiration and its Effects’; and ‘Morals for the Young’ (1857).