Louise Manning Hodgkins

Louise Manning Hodgkins
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	August 5, 1846 Ipswich, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	November 28, 1935(1935-11-28) (aged 89) East Northfield, Massachusetts
Resting place	Woodland Dell Cemetery, Wilbraham
Occupation	educator, author, editor
Alma mater	Ipswich Female Seminary, Pennington Seminary, Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, Lawrence College

Louise Manning Hodgkins (August 5, 1846 – November 28, 1935) was an American educator, author, and editor from Massachusetts. After completing her studies at Pennington Seminary and Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy, she became a teacher and preceptress at Lawrence College, before receiving a Master of Arts degree from that institution in 1876. She taught at Wellesley College for over a decade before turning her attentions to writing and editing. Her main works included Nineteenth Century Authors of Great Britain and the United States, Study of the English Language, and Via Christi. She served as editor of The Heathen Woman's Friend, the first organ of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also edited Milton lyrics : L'allegro, Il penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas and Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum. She died in 1935.