Ideas

Frances Willard is remembered for the many ideas that she promoted throughout her career.  The hallmark ideals of education, religion, feminism, marriage, and abolition existed throughout her popularized career as a socio-political reformer, but these concepts developed in Willard’s consciousness long before her global platform.  Her early influences of personal relationships, geographical location, and access to higher forms of education influenced the ways in which Willard fought for social change in her adulthood.  Willard’s journey from student to national leader saw the development of her beliefs to refined ideas that she shared with audiences across the United States.