Jedidiah Morse was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
Sidney Edwards Morse was an American inventor, geographer and journalist. He was the brother of telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel F. B. Morse.
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs. She also wrote articles on household decorative art and travel as well as children's literature.
Hannah Adams was an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Brookline. Adams was the first woman in the U.S. who worked professionally as a writer.
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams was an English poet and hymnwriter, best known for writing the words of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee".
Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Lucy Wheelock was an American early childhood education pioneer within the American kindergarten movement. She began her career by teaching the kindergarten program at Chauncy-Hall School (1879–89). Wheelock was the founder and head of Wheelock Kindergarten Training School, which later became Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. She wrote, lectured, and translated on subjects related to education.
Lilian Whiting was an American journalist, editor, and author of poetry and short stories. Her father was Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting. She served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Traveller (1880–1890), editor-in-chief of the Boston Budget (1890–93), and afterward, spent much of her time in Europe. Whiting was the author of The World Beautiful, From Dreamland Sent, a book of poems, A Study of the Life and Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Record of Kate Field, The World Beautiful in Books, Boston Days, Florence of Landor, The Outlook Beautiful, Italy, the Magic Land, Paris the Beautiful, and others.
Ella Hepworth Dixon was an English author and editor. Her best-known work is the New Woman novel The Story of a Modern Woman, which has been reprinted in the 21st century.
Hannah Flagg Gould was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism of her earlier verses. Gould's poems were short, but they were frequently nearly perfect in their kind. Nearly all of them appeared originally in annuals, magazines, and other miscellanies, and their popularity was shown by the subsequent sale of several collective editions. Her work exercised a helpful influence in its day, but lacked staying qualities. The high-water mark of her verse was reached in the poem entitled "A Name in the Sand".
William Smith Shaw was an American librarian. He was a founder of the Boston Athenæum as well as the Athenæum's first librarian.
Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge was an American philanthropist, author and reformer. She did much in the way of instructing young mothers in the care and clothing of infants, and furthered the cause to improve the condition of infants in foundling hospitals. She contributed a variety of articles on kindergarten matters to the daily press, and while living in Washington D.C., she gave a series of "nursery talks" for mothers at her home, where she fitted up a model nursery.
A View of Religions is an 18th-century comprehensive survey of world religions by the American author, Hannah Adams. First published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1784, it was a pioneering work in that it represented denominations from the perspective of their adherents, without imposing Adams' own preferences. The book was divided into sections and passed through several editions, which included minor changes in the name of the work. It was reprinted in England. A View of Religions was Adams' first and principal literary work. It was the result of her dissatisfaction with the prejudice of most writers on the various religious sects. She began thinking on the subject after reading a manuscript from Thomas Broughton's Historical Dictionary of all Religions from the Creation of the World to the Present Times (1742).
Helen M. Winslow was an American editor, author, publisher, and journalist. She began her work on Boston papers. Winslow served as dramatic editor on The Beacon, 1891–97; editor, Woman's Club Department, Boston Transcript, 1893–98; editor, Woman's Club Department of the Delineator, 1897, and again 1912; editor and publisher, The Club Woman, 1897-1904; and she was the publisher of the Official Register of Women's Clubs in America from 1897. She was the author of Salome Sheppard, Reformer. 1893; Concerning Cats, 1900; Concerning Polly, 1902; Literary Boston or To-day, 1902; The Woman of To-morrow, 1905; The President of Quex, 1906; Peggy at Spinster Farm, 1908; A Woman for Mayor, 1910; The Pleasuring of Susan Smith, 1912; and At the Sign of the Town Pump, 1913. She collaborated with Frances Willard in Occupations for Women, and with Marie Wright in Picturesque Mexico.
Emily Elizabeth Veeder was an American novelist and poet. Her published works were Her Brother Donnard (1891), and In the Garden and Other Poems (1894). Her Brother Donnard proved her gift as a story-teller. Although this book was her first, the second edition was bought out within a year. Among her most popular poems were "The Twilight Hour," "In My Dreams," and "A Voice." She wrote after having become an invalid in a railway accident.
Henrietta Gould Rowe was an American litterateur and author. She was the author of Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine; Queenshithe; and A Maid of Bar Harbor.
Fanny Huntington Runnells Poole (1863–1940) was an American writer. She was a book reviewer for Home Journal, 1894-8, and the author of A Bank of Violets (verse), 1895; Three Songs of Love (music), 1906; and Mugen (verse), 1908. She also compiled an unpublished poetical anthology. Poole enjoyed singing, teaching, the care of little children, the culture of flowers, embroidery, and old book and picture collections. But her absorbing passion was poetry.
Novella Jewell Trott was an American author and editor. She served as vice-president for the Woman's Press Department of the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago.
Cora Stuart Wheeler was an American poet and author. She was one of the most successful short-story writers of the day. It was during the civil war, as a girl in her father's committeeroom at the Capitol, during President Lincoln's time, that ideas were formed which developed into her verse of later years. Wheeler, a well-known literary worker and journalist in her day, wrote verse, bits of humor, biographies, and racy, thrilling stories. She gave instructive, entertaining lectures, through which ran good-natured wit and purpose.
Grace Atkinson Oliver was a 19th-century American author, litterateur, and advocate for women's rights. She was characterized as a woman of rare executive ability, a good speaker, and was noted for her charity work.
