Andrews, Jane (1833–1887)

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Andrews, Jane (1833–1887)

American educator and children's writer. Born Dec 1, 1833, in Newburyport, Massachusetts; died July 15, 1887, in Newburyport; graduated valedictorian from State Normal School, 1853.

An invalid due to spinal problems, opened a progressive primary school in her home that continued for 25 years (Alice Stone Blackwell was one of her pupils); wrote 1st book, Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air (1861), as a supplement to her geography lessons; also wrote Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now (1886) and Only a Year and What it Brought (1887). Six of her works, published by Ginn & Co., were used as elementary-school reading for half a century after her death.

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