Clementina Beach
Co-founder of Boston’s Saunders and Beach Academy, an elite school for girls
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Cordelia A Payson
In 1859, she started the Fairmount and Hyde Park Lyceum and hosted literary evenings in her house.
Dr Dorothea Lyons
Dr. Dorothea Lyons was appointed headmaster of Boston’s Jeremiah E. Burke School in the late 1950s.
Dr Edith DeAngelis
Dr Edith “Edie” DeAngelis was the driving force behind the completion of the East Boston Women’s Trail.
Dr Christie Huddleston
Dr. Christie Huddleston was a founding member of the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.
Anna Maria Mead Chalmers
Anna Maria Mead Chalmers authored numerous children’s books in the 1830s, later wrote short works of fiction and devotion, and contributed to the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.
Annie McKay
Boston’s first school nurse
Beatrice Winser
Beatrice Winser (1869-1947) was the director of the Newark Public Library and the Newark Museum.
Helen Storrow
Helen Storrow (1865-1944) funded the Saturday Evening Girls at Boston’s North Bennet Street Industrial School, where young working-class Italian and Jewish immigrant girls were taught literacy skills, pottery, and other crafts in a culturally rich program.
Clara L Bickford
Cleveland musician, teacher, and collector who founded and served as the first president (1933-35) of the Women’s Committee of the Cleveland Institute of Music