Beecher

When doing research on Catherine Beecher, I learned that her mother passed away when Beecher was only 16. She had several siblings and assumed a motherly-type role. She was educated at home and when she went to an actual school, it was a female school where only limited subjects were taught. One of her sisters was involved in the suffrage movement, which was basically women's rights. Beecher was kinda anti-suffrage. Beecher believed women needed to be educated for their roles as woman of the house; "women should devote themselves to the moral development and education of their children and to their home" (http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/beecher/catherine.htm). She opened several schools and wrote many books.