Born at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, on the 19th of December 1831. In early life she came to the United States, and married David G. Croly in 1856, and was engaged as correspondent of many of the principal daily and weekly papers of New York, New Orleans and Baltimore. The first two women’s congresses (1856 and 1869) were called by Mrs. Croly, and in 1868 she inaugurated for women the Sorosis Society; she edited the Home Maker, a monthly magazine published in New York, and also the Cycle, a periodical devoted to women’s clubs and to literary reviews; she published several books, among which were For Better or Worse; Thrown on Her Own Resources; History of Sorosis; etc. She received the degree of doctor of literature from Rutgers College in 1892. She was elected to the new chair of journalism and literature in that college, and was president of the New York City Women’s Press Club, which she established in 1889.
