Promoter of Physical Education for Women.
Physical education during the nineteenth century was geared toward male private schools. However, there were certain educators who wanted to see a rise in female participation in physical education. One of the main leaders of this movement was Catherine Beecher, who was an educator as well as an activist for women's rights. She promoted the idea of physical health as a subject appropriate for schools. Beecher not only supported the idea of physical education, she also developed her own system of calisthenics for girls. .
Catherine Beecher was born into a prominent family at a time when even wealthy women received minimal formal education. Born on September 6, 1800, she was the oldest daughter of 13 children (Goodsell, 1931). From a family of crusaders (her sister was abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe), Beecher took up the cause of educational reform and the promotion of women as teachers. Catherine's father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, was, according to Catherine, a warm, imaginative, and nurturing father who was passionately fond of his children, whom he loved to take care of. Catherine's mother was practical, self-controlled, and intelligent (Goodsell,1931). These contrasting characteristics in her parents led Beecher to think that "there is in mind no distinction of sex, and . . . much that passes for natural talent is mainly the result of culture" (Beecher, 1874, p. 14). Beecher was educated as any young lady would have been in the early nineteenth century. Her mother taught her to read, write, and spell at home until she was ten years old. Then she was sent to a private finishing school, where little was taught past the three R's, drawing, painting, and music (Goodspell, 1931). Beecher was greatly disappointed that she was never taught any of the traditionally masculine fields, such as Greek, Latin, mathematics, or science. Beecher, with her zest for learning, managed to get an education primarily through independent study.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut. ... Her Father was the well-known Congregational minister Lyman Beecher. Harriet's mother, Roxana Beecher, died when her daughter was five years old. ... Around the age of twelve she moved to Hartford where her sister, Catherine, had opened a school. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe died in 1896 at the age of 85 in Hartford, Connecticut. ...
Coil's Harriet Beecher Stowe is a biography of one of the most influential women of the 1800s. ... Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, to Lyman and Roxanna Foote Beecher. ... Sadly, her mother died while Harriet was only four years old, leaving the duties of raising the large Beecher family to her older sister, Catherine, who would play a large role in Harriet's life. ... The entire family (except for Catherine, who was still involved with her school), relocated to Cincinnati. ... Soon, Harriet Beecher Stowe was the wealthiest author i...
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