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As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards by Caroline L. Hunt (1912)The Outlook magazine (April 24, 1897)

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After school days are over, the girls ... find no natural connection between their school life and the new one on which they enter, and are apt to be aimless, if not listless, needing external stimulus, and finding it only prepared for them, it may be, in some form of social excitement. ...girls after leaving school need intellectual interests, well regulated and not encroaching on home duties.

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911), U.S. chemist and educator. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt (1912).

Written in the 1860s. Richards was reacting to the social constraints and heavy housekeeping duties imposed on schoolgirls.

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