Cora Scott Pope (née Pond; March 2, 1856 – unknown) was an American professor, a scenario writer,[1] and a real estate developer.

In Massachusetts, she organized 87 woman's suffrage leagues, speaking in public and raising money to carry on the work in that state.

As a fundraiser, she originated a dramatic entertainment called "The National Pageant", which she gave with great success for the benefit of the various societies of women.

[5][6] With Charlotte Harris Allen and Aimee Stanwood Bigelow, Pond was also editor and publisher of the children's monthly magazine, The Young Idea.

Her father, Levi Wesley Pond (1827–1908) born in Calais, Maine, was a successful inventor of machinery and booms for milling and logging purposes, and one of the early pioneers in Wisconsin.

After they married, they went immediately to the West, settling first in Sheboygan, in 1850, and then moved to Two Rivers, Wabasha County, Minnesota, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and finally settled in Eau Claire, Wisconsin,[5] Cora had many siblings including, Mary Jane, Charles, Emeline, Edward E., Edward W., George W., Eugene L., Gilbert A., Katherine, and Gilbert A.

The question of expense was a crucial one, with so large a family to support, but at the age of 22, Pond was able to enter the state university.

[5] She decided to fit herself as a teacher of oratory and, not wishing to finish any prescribed course in the university, after studying there three years, she set out for Boston alone in 1880, one of the first young women in her city, in those days, to go away from home, and adopt a profession.

Pond had intended to teach for ten years and then go West and take up the work for women, but she decided to accept the proposition.

Pond made her venture and carried it into the large cities of the country, and gave one performance each month for local societies, and raised many thousands of dollars for charitable purposes.

[11] She also owned a home nearby in the Garvanza neighborhood with Anna Howard Shaw before they joined Susan B. Anthony in Los Angeles's suffrage movement.

[2] In 1924, Pond-Pope divorced her husband on the grounds that she maintained a home for him and his three minor children by a former marriage until August, 1917, paying all the expenses from an income she received from her labors.