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Victoria College, which was prominent in pioneer educational work. The institution began as a secondary school before college education for women had been
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and girls should receive a similar education. In 1853, widowed, she returned New York, connecting with
American religious women, and to Ireland in the following year at the behest of her mother, making her home in
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