Montgomery Female Academy

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“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day’s march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)

“Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)