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Key BIB08706
Reference type Thesis
Title The Life and Work of Sarah Jane Farmer, 1847-1916
Author Martin, James Douglas
Year1967
Date 1967
Place published Waterloo, ON
Abstract Sarah Jane Farmer untertood a series of educational projects durng the 1880-1900 period: the Eliot Public Library, the Greenacre Institute and the Monsalvat School for the Comparative Study of Religion. Two circumstances added considerable importance to her work: (1) her pioneering contributions to the adult education movement ; (2) timing of her programs, occurring as they did during a watershed period in which many American thinkers tried to draw their countrymen into the process of social change.
Notes M.A.
Language English
Keywords FARMER, SARAH JANE; BIOGRAPHY
Number of pages 261
University University of Waterloo

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