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Zilpah P. Grant Banister

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225: 42: 160:. She then founded Ipswich Female Academy. Grant's curricula at Adams and Ipswich reflected Emerson's influence; they blended rigorous academic studies, moral oversight, and teacher training. Grant expected students to study for the joy of learning, rather than working for grades or prizes. Mary Lyon was Grant's assistant and, later, principal at Ipswich until she left to found 148:
Zilpah Grant began teaching at the age of fifteen. Eventually she saved up enough money to enter Byfield Academy and study under the charismatic clergyman Joseph Emerson, a leading proponent of women's education. At Byfield, she befriended
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Beecher family papers (including letters to Zilpah Grant Banister) at Mount Holyoke College
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Capen, Eliza Paul, and Leonard W. Labaree. "Zilpah Grant and the Art of Teaching: 1829."
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Burial place of Zilpah P. Grant Banister in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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From 1824 to 1827 (or 1828), Grant served as principal of Adams Female Academy at
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On September 7, 1841, Grant married William B. Banister and moved with him to
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Zilpah Polly Grant

Ipswich Female Seminary
Ipswich Female Seminary
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Mary Lyon
Derry, New Hampshire
Mount Holyoke Seminary

Newburyport, Massachusetts
Burial place of Zilpah P. Grant Banister in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Zilpah P. Grant Banister Papers at Mount Holyoke College
Beecher family papers (including letters to Zilpah Grant Banister) at Mount Holyoke College
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