Louise Copeland Marks
Set in Albany in the early nineteenth century, To Elevate & Adorn the Mind, is a thoroughly researched historical novel about Betsey Colt Foot and her radical quest to establish the Albany Academy for Girls, one of the country's oldest independent schools for the education of young women. Louise Copeland Marks is an academy alumni and Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology, Psychology, and Mental Health at SUNY's North Country Community College.
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