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Abby Wright's school, also known as blank or just the blank, was a school in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is most known for its students' style of needlepoint samplers. The school was started by Abby Wright in 1803.

Biography
Abigail "Abby" Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1774. She was the only child of Levi Wright and Abigail Wolcott. Wright opened a girl's school in 1803, at the request of local townspeople. When she got married in 1809, Wright stopped teaching and her half-sister took over the school.