American authoress and educator, born at Croydon, NH, on the 17th of April 1835. She received her education at Kimball Union Academy and became a teacher. She had written poetry at the age of nine, and continued to devote herself to that class of literature. She next began to lecture on moral and social topics, and in 1880 was sent to France to study the equitable association of capital and labor at Guise, where she resided three months, thoroughly mastering the subject. Returning home, she was elected state lecturer by the Patrons of Industry in New Jersey, holding the position until 1884, when, the work having become of national importance, she was sent to visit different states. She published a volume of Poems (1868); The Relation of the Maternal Function to Woman’s Intellect (1876); The Philosophy of Art (1878); Science and Its Relation to Human Character (1878); The Present Phase of Woman’s Advancement (1880); Laws and Regulations of the Mutual Assurance of the Institutional Guise (1881). See also “A Summer Morning Hour with Nature,” etc.
