Irene Sarah Clark Durrell was an American educator from New Hampshire. She served as preceptress of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College, now known as Tilton School.
Mary H. Bannister Willard was an American editor, temperance worker, and educator from the U.S. state of New York. She was the founder of the American Home School for Girls in Berlin, Germany, earlier having served as editor of the Post and Mail and The Union Signal.
Elizabeth Osborne Robinson Abbott was an American educator considered to be a pioneer in introducing kindergarten to Connecticut.
Lavilla Esther Allen was an American author, poet, and reader. She died in 1903.
Mary French Swarthout was an American educator.
Jane Amy McKinney was an American educator and philanthropist. She was actively engaged in temperance work and in the advocacy of women's suffrage.
Caroline Greenhank Boughton was an American educator and philanthropist.
Susanne Vandegrift Moore was an American editor and publisher. During the period of 1889–97, she was the editor and owner of the weekly, St. Louis Life. She was friends with Kate Chopin. Susanne Moore died in 1926.
Helen Marr Hurd was an American teacher and poet with severe myopia. She taught in thirty schools—until her eyes made teaching impossible. Thereafter, she devoted her time to literary pursuits. She was the author of an illustrated volume of poems. Hurd died in 1909.
Jessie Wilson Manning was an American author and lecturer. She was an active worker and eloquent speaker on literary subjects and for the cause of temperance. Manning died in 1947.
Sarah Hearst Black was an American social reformer in the temperance movement. She lived a life of self-denial as a home missionary's wife in Kansas, Nebraska, and Idaho, and served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Nebraska.
Luella Dowd Smith was an American educator and author of prose and verse. She was active in social reform movements of the day. Smith taught school for ten years and was the principal of three high schools and one academy. She was also active in the areas of temperance, Sunday school, prohibition, and equal suffrage. Smith wrote for the National Temperance Society. She was the author of Wayside Leaves, 1879; Wind Flowers, 1887; Flowers from Foreign Fields, 1895; The Value of the Church, 1898; Thirteen Temperance Theses and Two Trilogies, 1901; as well as Ways to win, 1904; Daily ideas and ideals, 1930; and Along the way; poems, 1938. Smith died in 1941.
Matilda Maranda Crawford was an American-Canadian newspaper correspondent and poet. In addition to contributing to the literary press, she was engaged in teaching.
Emma B. Dunham was an American poet and teacher. She began writing for publication when very young, and continued to write for newspapers and magazines throughout her life. Some of her work was republished in Europe.
Helen Louise B. Babcock was an American educator, elocutionist, and dramatic reader.
Mary Canfield Ballard was an American poet and hymnwriter. She was a prolific contributor to periodicals, contributing occasionally to thirty of them.
Corelli C. W. Simpson was an American poet and cookbook author, who painted many artistic works in oil. In 1864, she opened the first kindergarten in Bangor, Maine.
Mary Galentine Fenner was an American poet and litterateur. She wrote for the Rural New Yorker before becoming a prolific versifier. She was also involved in the temperance and suffrage movements.
Anna M. Hammer was an American philanthropist and temperance movement leader. For years, she was prominently identified with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), principally in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and for a long time, served as president of the WCTU in the latter state.
Lucie Caroline Hager was an American author of poetry and prose. She also taught in country schools and worked as a bookkeeper.
