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, and is now the namesake of Boston University's college of education BU Wheelock. She wrote, lectured, and translated on subjects related to education.
Helen Almira Shafer was an American educator and president of Wellesley College.
Flora Harrod Hawes was a 19th-century American postmaster from Indiana. At one time, she was the youngest woman in the United States holding this position.
Annie Le Porte Diggs was a Canadian-born American activist, journalist, author, and librarian. She was the chairman of the delegation from Washington, D.C. for the National People's Party Convention, in Omaha, in 1892. It was the first time a woman ever led a delegation at a national political convention. She was a speaker for the People's Party in nearly every state and territory. She served as state librarian of Kansas, 1898–1902. A writer, Diggs served as the associate editor of The Advocate, Topeka, Kansas, and was the author of Little Brown Brothers and the Story of Jerry Simpson. Diggs died in 1916 in Michigan.
Florence Trail was an American educator and author. Though she belonged to one of the wealthiest families of Maryland, she believed in the doctrine of self-support and left home to engage in teaching, first in Kentucky and North Carolina, and afterward in New York and Connecticut. On returning from an extended tour of Europe, she published My Journal in Foreign Lands. This was followed by other volumes, among them: Studies in Criticism, Under the Second Renaissance, and A History of Italian Literature. Trail died in 1944.
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 Gibson Humphreys was an American author and suffragist. In her day, Humphreys was the only woman in the United States ever put on the board of directors of a public road by the vote of the officers and stockholders, and probably the only one ever elected to the office of public lecturer to an Alliance lodge. She was known in Kentucky for her table settings and cooking. Humphreys died in 1907.
Estelle Mendell Amory was an American educator and author. She is better known as a writer by her maiden name, Estelle Mendell. She published a variety of domestic articles, short stories for children, essays on living themes, and occasional poems.
Ruth Alice Armstrong was an American temperance activist. She served as the national superintendent of heredity for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She wrote leaflets and letters of instruction for the organization, and lectured on "Heredity" and "Motherhood". Armstrong died in 1901.
Libbie Riley Baer was an American poet. She was the author of In the Land of Fancy and other works.
Helen Taggart Clark was an American columnist, short story writer, and poet. She wrote a weekly column for the Sudbury, Massachusetts News, and was a contributor to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, the Christian Union, the Woman's Journal, and the Springfield Republican.
Melissa Elizabeth Banta was an American poet. She also wrote letters of travel.
Julia Boynton Green was an American author and poet. She is remembered as an "anti-modernist who railed against free verse". She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines (1887), as well as two other books, This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes (1928) and Noonmark (1936). She died in 1957.
Mary Kavanaugh Eagle was an American community leader, clubwoman, book editor, and activist in Protestant missionary work. She served as president of the Woman's Central Committee on Missions since 1882, and was the first president of the Woman's Mission Union, of Arkansas. As a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Commission, and as chair of the Committee on Congresses, she was selected as editor of the papers read. Eagle served as First Lady of Arkansas during her husband's two terms as the state's 16th Governor.
Novella Jewell Trott was an American author and editor. She worked on the editorial staff of the E. C. Allen publishing company and served as sole editor of Practical Housekeeper and Daughters of America. In 1893, she served as vice-president for the Woman's Press Department of the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago.
Eva C. Doughty was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Michigan Woman's Press Association and the Mt. Pleasant Library, Literary and Musical Association. She served as president of the Grand Rapids Equal Suffrage Association.
Minnie Mary Lee was a pen name of Julia Amanda Sargent Wood, a 19th-century American sentimental author, of poems, stories, sketches and novels, who sometimes also wrote as Mrs. Julia A. A. Wood. She began writing very early in life, but did not publish in book form until she was in her forties. The Heart of Myrrha Lake, Or, Into the Light of Catholicity ; Hubert's Wife: a Story for You ; The Brown House at Duffield: a Story of Life without and within the Fold ; and The Story of Annette and her Five Dolls: Told to dear little Catholic Children were her published works. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Wood's novels were on Catholic themes.
Martha Loftin Wilson was an American missionary worker and journal editor, as well as a pioneer Atlanta resident and a heroine of the American Civil War. She was regarded as "the most influential leader in the Woman's Missionary Union in Georgia". Wilson was the author of Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War.
Margaret Hunt Brisbane was an American poet of the Confederacy. She was also a magazine writer of national repute, and a popular contributor to New Orleans newspapers. A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, she came from a literary family. She was married in 1883, and for many years made her home in New Orleans. Poems by Margaret Hunt Brisbane was published in 1925.
Helen L. Webster was an American philologist and educator. She taught at Vassar College, 1889–90, at same time giving a course of lectures on comparative philology at Barnard College. She served as professor of comparative philology in Wellesley College. 1890–9; and was the principal of the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Institute, 1899–1904. Webster was the author of: A Treatise on the Guttural Question in Gothic. She edited, The Legends of the Micmacs, 1893. Additional, she lectured and contributed to educational periodicals. Webster made her home in Farmington, Connecticut.
