Edith Gratia Stedman OBE (December 29, 1888 - July 16, 1978) was an American social worker, educator, writer and volunteer.

She is best known for her vocational programming created at Radcliffe starting in the Great Depression and also for her help in restoring Dorchester Abbey.

[3] After school, she worked for a time at the Framingham Reformatory for Women until her brother convinced her to quit in order to run the family's candy store, a job she later discovered she hated.

[9][10] She also created the Radcliffe Publishing Course, which has launched the careers of many editors and still continues today as a part of Columbia University.

[12] Stedman was awarded as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1976 for her work supporting the restoration of Dorchester Abbey.

[12][13] She was given the award at the British embassy in Washington, D.C.[14] A stone carving of Stedman is located above the west door of the Abbey.