Caroline Matilda Warren Thayer (c. 1785–1844) was an American educator, novelist, and children's writer.
[1][2][3] She was related to the Bunker Hill revolutionary General Joseph Warren.
She opened a school on Canandaigua Lake in 1818 and in 1819, became the superintendent of the female division of Wesleyan Seminary in New York City.
However, her stay with the Wesleyan Seminary ended when she was dismissed for her associations with New Jerusalem Church in 1821.
She then became the Governess of Elizabeth Female Academy in Mississippi before opening her own school in Port Gibson in 1831.