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Abby Wright's school, also known as blank or just the blank, was a school in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is most known for its students' style of needlepoint samplers. The school was started by Abby Wright in 1803.

Biography

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Abigail "Abby" Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1774. She was the only child of Levi Wright and Abigail Wolcott. Wright opened a girl's school in 1803, at the request of local townspeople. When she got married in 1809, Wright stopped teaching and her half-sister took over the school.[1]


References

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  1. ^ Huber, Carol; Huber, Stephen; Schoelwer, Susan P.; Lansing, Amy Kurtz. With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, 1740–1840. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-8195-7229-5. Retrieved 16 November 2020.

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