Postponed: Anna Eliot Ticknor and the Society to Encourage Studies at Home

Due to COVID 19 concerns, we have postposed this event (working on a new date for the fall and will announce once finalized)

Please join us for our annual Women's History Month program.  Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the first correspondence school in America in 1873, it was known as the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. For a $2 annual fee any woman over the age of 17 living in a location with mail delivery could take one of 39 courses by simply exchanging letters with a female teacher in the Boston area. If a student was unable to purchase the course materials needed, they would be sent to them on loan from the library Anna established in her home on Beacon Hill. 

Our speakers are Marie Oedel and Cheryl Mariolis of the Ticknor Society who will share new images and information of how Anna learned about a similar society in England, how she adapted it to the needs of American women, and provide examples of women's lives who were changed as a result of participating in the Society. Anna Eliot Ticknor is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery. Free and open to the public, light refreshments will be served.