Works
Along with the profits made from the Troy Female Seminary, Willard also made a living from her writing. She wrote several textbooks throughout her lifetime, including books on history and geography. Some of her works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases (1823), which she wrote with the American geographer William Channing Woodbridge; History of the United States, or Republic of America (1828), A System of Fulfillment of a Promise (1831), A Treatise on the Motive Powers which Produce the Circulation of the Blood (1846), Guide to the Temple of Time and Universal History for Schools (1849), Last Leaves of American History (1849), Astronography; or Astronomical Geography (1854), and Morals for the Young (1857). Willard also published a book of poetry, The Fulfilment of a Promise (1831) with her most popular poem entitled “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” which she reportedly wrote while on an ocean voyage in 1839. In 1830, she made a tour of Europe, and three years later published the proceeds from the sale of the book she gave to a school for women that she helped to found in Athens, Greece.
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