Homeschooled Women

• Abigail Adams
• HelenKeller
• Mercy Warren
• Martha Washington
• Florence Nightingale
• Phyllis Wheatley

Abigail Adams
The wife of the 2nd US President, John Adams, and the mother of the 6th US President, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams was a homeschooled woman. "ABIGAIL SMITH ADAMS was born 11 November 1744 (observed on 22 November after the calendar revision of 1752), in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Reverend William and Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith. She had no formal schooling, but her education included reading works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Alexander Pope." More

Helen Keller
I think Helen Keller was just an extraordinary person, having able to do so much with the disabilities that she had. Her parents didn't give up and hired a personal tutor, who understood and helped her to be what she was. More on this homeschooled woman

Mercy Warren
"Like most girls of her generation, Mercy Warren received no formal education during her childhood in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and she learned to read and write by occasionally sitting in on her brothers' lessons and browsing through her uncle's library." More

Martha Washington
This homeschooled woman's "informal education; trained at home in music, sewing, household management. Later knowledge of plantation management, crop sales, homeopathic medicine, animal husbandry suggests a wider education than previously thought. Probably taught by indentured Dandridge family servant Thomas Leonard, and regularly tutored for about five years until the age of 12 or 13 at Poplar Grove Plantation, the home of a friend of the Chamberlayne family." More

Florence Nightingale
"Florence and Parthenope were taught at home by their Cambridge University educated father." More