[1] "If we are asked whether we would have women enter public life, whether we would wish them to become professors in the university, clergymen in the church, and lawyers at the bar, as is the case in America, we should make no response, Tor they are but idle questions.

She was the eldest daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Adolf Lette whom she accompanied, in 1848, to Frankfurt am Main, where he went as a member of the German National Parliament.

In 1866, she joined her father in Berlin, and was initiated into the work of the Lette Society, to which she devoted all her time and energy.

A reformer, Schepeler-Lette went to America in 1876, and visited the Centennial Exposition, and many of the principal cities of the US, where she carefully examined various institutions whose aims were similar to those of the Lette Society.

She founded schools that had no precedent at the time, nor was there a guarantee that government or industry would find the education provided as being acceptable.