We are Present and Future Women: Freehold Young Ladies Seminary, 1845-1898
Channel: Monmouth County Historical Association
Date: 2021-11-15

Bernadette Rogoff, author and Director of Collections at MCHA, has been curating Monmouth County history for three decades. Her impressive career has established her as one of the county's premiere historians. This lecture will spotlight the Freehold Young Ladies Seminary, one of the most prestigious 19th-century female educational institutions on the eastern seaboard.

Meet Achsah, a brilliant and world-renowned mathematician; Annie, an influential suffragist and close colleague of Margaret Sanger; Emily, creator of the American Kindergarten System; Adeline, a rare female in the field of 19th-century journalism and the first woman to run for the NJ State Senate, and many more of the determined and pioneering ladies of FYLS. 

To register for our free virtual lecture series, please visit monmouthhistory.org/historically-speaking

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