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Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

By Mary Sarah Bilder
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By Mary Sarah Bilder
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Finalist for the 2023 George Washington Prize

In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s—the Age of the Constitution—to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English—speaking world: female genius. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in English—born Eliza Harriot Barons O’Connor. This pathbreaking female educator delivered a University of Pennsylvania lecture attended by George Washington as he and other Constitutional Convention deleg...

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