Martha Whiting

Boston’s Charlestown Female Seminary, established in 1831, educated notable women. Martha Whiting (1795-1853), it’s first headmistress, was a pioneer in female education and missionary work.

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Lydia Mary Fay

Lydia Mary Fay was an American educator who supervised an Episcopal mission school in Shanghai almost continuously from 1851 until her death in 1878.

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