Read Part One HERE
In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Sarah Mapps Douglass. She lived from 1802 - 1882. In 1852, now reconciled with the Quakers, Sarah closed her school and accepted an appointment to supervise the Girls' Preparatory Department of the Quaker-sponsored Institute for Coloured Youth. From 1853 - 1877 she served as principal of that department.
During this time, she also acquired basic medical training at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and at Pennsylvania Medical University, where she studied female health and hygiene.
In 1855 Sarah married the Reverend William Douglass, Rector at St Thomas Episcopal Church, a widower with nine children. Her husband died in 1861.
A cause Sarah had long championed was the education of women on health issues. In 1858 she embarked on a career as a lecturer, confronting topics that would have been considered unseemly for an unmarried women to address. Her illustrated lectures to female audiences in New York City and Philadelphia drew praise for being informative and "chaste."
Read Part One Hundred and Two HERE
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