Elizabeth Robinson Abbott

Elizabeth Osborne Robinson Abbott (September 11, 1852 – September 27, 1926) was an American educator considered to be a pioneer in introducing kindergarten to Connecticut.[1][2]

Elizabeth Robinson Abbott
"A woman of the century"
Born(1852-09-11)September 11, 1852
Lowell, Massachusetts
DiedSeptember 27, 1926(1926-09-27) (aged 74)
Malden, Massachusetts
OccupationKindergarten teacher

Biography

The daughter of William Stevens Robinson and Harriet Hanson, she was born Elizabeth Osborne Robinson in Lowell, Massachusetts. She taught at a district school in Maine and ran a small private school. She also worked at typesetting for a while but found that the pay for women in that field was not very good. She then began working as a cook in a charity kindergarten and nursery in Boston; she was allowed to take classes which eventually allowed her to teach kindergarten. She began teaching at a charity summer school in Boston and then taught in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1885, she married George S. Abbott. She continued to teach and later operated a kindergarten out of her home. She served as secretary of the Connecticut Valley Kindergarten Association. Abbott also helped found the Old and New woman's club in Malden, Massachusetts and was the main founder for the Woman's Club of Waterbury.[2]

Abbott and her husband later moved into her family's home in Malden. She was confined to a wheelchair for the last eleven years of her life and died in Malden at the age of 74.[3]

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gollark: Which kind of works even if you haven't taken vengeance on *anyone* yet, if people *think* you are likely to.
gollark: As I said, if people know "hmm yes if I do bad things to this person they will have VENGEANCE" they are less likely to do those bad things.
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References
  1. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Gordon, Ann Dexter (2006). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887. p. 207. ISBN 0813523206.
  2. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton. p. 2.
  3. Bushman, Claudia L (1998). "A Good Poor Man's Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-century New England. UPNE. pp. 210–11. ISBN 0874518830.
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