Frances Willard

MG later remembered several of her teachers: Miss Gargrave the headmistress, Miss Clara Locke , and Miss Florence Wood . She remembered the last-named for punishing her for talking, with a stroke on the hand...

A reviewer for the New York Times commented on Carey's decision to include only the very best-known English women in her book when the number of women who are to-day doing good work here in...

The book's application of the rhetoric of duty and its emphasis on the special characteristics of women made it enormously effective as an address to women who were not already committed feminists. Frances E. Willard

FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...

RS published Frances Willard : Her Life and Work, a biography of her grandmother Hannah Whitall 's close friend, an important early feminist and educator.