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title: 'The Importance of Female Education'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Gover Winchester'
date: 1838-03-15
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Medicine and Health'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 4'
- 'Matthew 25'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/winchester-1838-the-importance-of-female-education
---

# The Importance of Female Education

Reports on Natchez yellow fever epidemics (1817–1819), endorsing miasma and weather as causes. Also publishes a lecture advocating expanded female education—moral, intellectual, and physical training.

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