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See also:DICKINSON, See also:ANNA See also:ELIZABETH (1842– ) , See also:American author and lecturer, was See also:born, of Quaker parentage, at See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 28th of See also:October 1842. She was educated at the See also:Friends' See also:Free School in Philadelphia, and was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a teacher. In 1861 she obtained a clerkship in the See also:United States See also:mint, but was removed for criticizing See also:General McClellan at a public See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting. She had gradually become widely known as an eloquent and persuasive public See also:speaker, one of the first of her See also:sex to See also:mount the See also:platform to discuss the burning questions of the See also:hour. Before the See also:Civil See also:War she lectured on See also:anti-See also:slavery topics, during the war she toured the See also:country on behalf of the Sanitary See also:Commission, and also lectured on reconstruction, See also:temperance and woman's rights. She wrote several plays, including The See also:Crown of Thorns (1876); See also:Mary Tudor (1878), in which she appeared in the See also:title role; See also:Aurelian (1878); and An American Girl (188o), successfully acted by Fanny See also:Davenport. She also published a novel, Which See also:Answer? (1868) ; A Paying Investment, a Plea for See also:Education (1876); and A Ragged See also:Register of See also:People, Places and Opinions (1879).
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