A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850.[1] Supporting academic education for women, the seminaries were part of a large and growing trend toward women's equality.[2] Some trace its roots to 1815, and characterize it as at the confluence of various liberation movements.[2][3] Some of the seminaries gradually developed as four-year colleges.
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