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The author talks about the argument that girls should have an education too. The text says, "But in the early nineteenth century, the stigma against a full education for girls was weakened. Female writers promoted the idea of "republican motherhood." They argued that a happy and virtuous nation depended on a happy and virtuous family. Since mothers spent more time with their children than fathers did, mothers, too, needed to be wise, worldly, and knowledgeable."
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