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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839–1898)

Willard, Frances Elizabeth. An American educator, editor, and reformer; born at Churchville, NY, Sept. 28, 1839; died in New York City, Feb. 18, 1898. She was president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union from 1879, and editor-in-chief of the Union Signal, the official organ of the movement. Besides contributing to leading periodicals, she published: ‘Nineteen Beautiful Years’ (1864), a life of her deceased sister; ‘Glimpses of Fifty Years’ (1889); ‘A Great Mother’ (1894).