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John Epy Lovell was born on April 23, 1795 in Colne, Lancashire, England, the eldest child of John and Elizabeth (Epy) Lovell.
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The Young Pupil's Second Book: Comprising a Great Variety of Interesting Lessons, on Subjects Calculated to Improve the Heart, and to Inform and ... Powers of the Juvenile Mind (Classic Reprint)
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Exercises in Orthography: Containing Examples in False Spelling, to Be Corrected by the Pupil; Comprising Instructive and Interesting Passages in Prose and Verse (Classic Reprint)
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The United States Speaker: a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution: Consisting of Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America
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New School Dialogues: Or Dramatic Selections For The Use Of Schools, Academies, And Families (1871)
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Progressive Readers: A Class Book for the Use of Advanced Pupils, in Public and Private Schools, Comprising a Very Large Selection of Lessons, a Treatise ... and a Full Explanatory Index, Etc, Issue 5
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John Epy Lovell
Edit ProfileEducation
Lovell was sent by his parents to a private boarding-school at St. Ives, where in five years' time he finished at the head of his class.
Career
At the age of sixteen Lovell became a tutor in the family of the Duke of Bedford. There he made the acquaintance of Joseph Lancaster, originator of the famous Lancasterian system of instruction, whereby a single teacher could instruct many by using the older pupils as teachers of the younger. This acquaintance was decisive for Lovell's further career. Through Lancaster's influence he shortly became principal of a Lancasterian school at Burr Rose, England, but after some years decided to try his fortune with the system in the United States. After attempts to establish himself in Philadelphia and in Baltimore, he finally started a school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1822, which was immediately successful. In 1827, however, a rift in the community's support led him to accept an appointment to teach elocution in the Mount Pleasant Classical Institute at Amherst, Massachusetts. The New Haven school languished during his absence and in three years he was recalled. For the next quarter century this school, under his control, was the pride of the town and Lovell's personal popularity was unbounded. In fact, so successful was he that New Haven clung to the Lancasterian system long after other cities were adopting the more modern plan of graded schools.
John published Introductory Arithmetic (1827) and Rhetorical Dialogues (1839). In 1857 he tendered his resignation to the New Haven Board of Education, assigning the burden of his textbook writing as the cause. The next few years he spent in completing a series of school readers, Lovell's Progressive Reader (5 vols. , 1855 - 1859), and in doing some private tutoring. Later he made his home with his daughter, and when she moved to Waterbury, Connecticut, about 1882, he accompanied her. Some time after 1890 he moved with her to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He recognized his debt to Lancaster by dedicating to him his first publication, Introductory Arithmetic, and when, late in life, Lancaster was in want, Lovell was active in raising funds for him. Lovell's own peculiar success with the Lancasterian mode of instruction seems to have resided in his ability to infuse a highly mechanical system of instruction with the warmth of personal magnetism. Regarding his application of the system he wrote at length for the Connecticut Common School Journal (June 1840).
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Lovell's place in American educational history was almost identical with that of the Lancasterian system of instruction. He was distinguished for the foundation of The New Haven school in Connecticut. Among his pupils were such famous people as Henry Ward Beecher and Edwin Booth. Some of his books were known outside Connecticut and "The United States Speaker" (1833) was considered his most successful work on the subject of elocution.
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The Young Pupil's Second Book: Comprising a Great Variety of Interesting Lessons, on Subjects Calculated to Improve the Heart, and to Inform and ... Powers of the Juvenile Mind (Classic Reprint)
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Exercises in Orthography: Containing Examples in False Spelling, to Be Corrected by the Pupil; Comprising Instructive and Interesting Passages in Prose and Verse (Classic Reprint)
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The United States Speaker: a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution: Consisting of Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America
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Progressive Readers: A Class Book for the Use of Advanced Pupils, in Public and Private Schools, Comprising a Very Large Selection of Lessons, a Treatise ... and a Full Explanatory Index, Etc, Issue 5
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New School Dialogues: Or Dramatic Selections For The Use Of Schools, Academies, And Families (1871)
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Rhetorical Dialogues: Or, Dramatic Selections for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Families
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The Young Pupil's Second Book: Comprising a Great Variety of Interesting Lessons, on Subjects Calculated to Improve the Heart, and to Inform and ... Powers of the Juvenile Mind (Classic Reprint)
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Lovell was married to Harriet Fletcher, who died in 1835. Two children were born to him by his second wife, Minerva Camp, whom he married on March 29, 1845.
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