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Welch was the first American woman to lecture at Cambridge University, and whose work was accepted by the British Association. She was a pioneer among American women in talking about American history in the form of extended lecture courses. Her writings on this topic were voluminous and valuable.
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While working as a journalist, Welch instituted history classes at her home in Buffalo inviting her female friends. The success of these classes induced Welch to devote herself full-time to history. She became a regular lecturer on American history at the Buffalo Seminary, St. Margaret's school,
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The Congress of Women Held in the Woman's Building, World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893 with Portraits, Biographies, and Addresses ; Published by Authority of the Board of Lady Managers
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American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century
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Welch traveled extensively in the US, as well as in Great Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. She lived at 514 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo for 30 years.
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Jane Meade Welch, daughter of Thomas Cary Welch and Maria Allen Meade Welch, was born in Buffalo, New York on March 11, 1854. Of
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Welch was an invalid for two years before she regained her health and became a practical journalist, beginning as a
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Assembly. In February 1891, she gave a series of six lectures in the Berkeley Lyceum Theater in
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1897). "Jane Meade Welch".
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to become a professional journalist, the first American woman to lecture at
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Bell. 671:Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham (1894). 625:Nantucket Historical Association 1907 427: 7: 483:Vogel, Charity (November 12, 2005). 444: 372:"The Organization of the Government" 213:. She next joined the staff of the 808:Works by or about Jane Meade Welch 14: 853:19th-century American journalists 555:Welch, Jane Meade (August 1887). 161:ancestry, she was descended from 94: 898:Historians from New York (state) 863:19th-century American historians 819: 795: 745: 724: 703: 682: 660: 639: 369:"The Making of the Constitution" 274:Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston 240:'s school, New York; The Misses 521:Welch, Jane Meade (July 1885). 903:Historians of New York (state) 868:Writers from Buffalo, New York 387:"The Finding of the New World" 339:"The Finding of the New World" 1: 883:American women music critics 509:Willard & Livermore 1897 924: 888:American women historians 781:Western New York Heritage 741:(Public domain ed.). 190:Thomas Babington Macaulay 30: 717:The Illustrated American 282:Anne Wroe Scollay Curtis 153:Early life and education 117:Buffalo Female Academy, 873:Buffalo Seminary alumni 278:William Collins Whitney 180:) at the age of 16. 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"A Woman of the Century"
A Woman of the Century
Buffalo, New York
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Elmira College
Buffalo, New York
Cambridge University
British Association
New England
John Alden
Priscilla Alden
Samuel Seabury
Buffalo Seminary
Elmira College
David Hume
Thomas Babington Macaulay
music critic
Buffalo Courier
Sylvanus Reed
Masters School
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Ogontz
Pennsylvania
Penn State Abington
Cornell University
Chautauqua
New York City
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston
William Collins Whitney
Anne Wroe Scollay Curtis

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