[2] She went on to attend Boston High School, Lasell Seminary, and Mount Holyoke College.

She spent a year abroad in San Sebastián with another sister, Alice Gordon Gulick, who had started a school for girls there in 1871.

Gordon subsequently followed her employer on her travels through the United States, Canada and Europe, spending a year in England, mostly as the guests of Lady Henry Somerset.

[1] As a leader in the WCTU, Gordon was a staunch believer in the need to interest children in temperance at a very early age.

To that end, she authored a number of books of stories, verse, and song aimed at children, as well as publications for adults.