Anna Eliot Ticknor
(1823-1896)
American writer
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Anna Eliot Ticknor (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1823 – October 5, 1896) was an American author and educator. In 1873, Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home which was the first correspondence school in the United States. She is attributed as being a pioneer of distance learning in the United States, and the mother of correspondence schools. She served as one of the original appointees to the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission, which was the first of its kind in the United States. She and Elizabeth Putnam Sohier became the first women appointed to a United States state library agency when they were appointed to that commission in 1890.
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1 June 1823
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5 October 1896 (aged 73)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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