Anna Eliot Ticknor

In 1873, Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home which was the first correspondence school in the United States.

[2][3] She served as one of the original appointees to the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission,[4] which was the first of its kind in the United States.

In 1896, Ticknor wrote a children's book, An American Family in Paris: With Fifty-Eight Illustrations of Historical Monuments and Familiar Scenes.

[9][10] Her society was the first correspondence school in the United States, and an early effort to offer higher education to women.

[1] She is buried in the family lot in Forest Hills Cemetery, in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.