Elizabeth Cutter Morrow

Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow (May 29, 1873 – January 24, 1955) was an American poet, champion of women's education, and purveyor of Mexican culture.

[5] The Cutters lived in Cleveland with their extended family before moving in 1888 to a home Charles built nearby.

[6] Both Mary and Betty were sickly children, and, in 1879, both sisters became ill enough that the family decided to move to New Orleans, Louisiana.

In March 1883 Betty was sent to live with her uncle John Spencer, a medical doctor in Dayton, Ohio.

Betty disliked her trips to Dayton and began a lifelong habit of writing in a diary to cope with her stress.

At first, Betty did not like her husband's assignment in Mexico, for they had to move from their home in New Jersey and she viewed this as a type of exile.

[3] She often remarked on the grandeur of the embassy and of the warm welcome they received[8] In Mexico, the couple built a small house in Cuernavaca they named Casa Mañana.

[20] After her husband died in his sleep in 1931[21] Morrow would continue to visit Casa Mañana for up to a month every spring.

[22] In widowhood, she became the first female president of Smith College, acting in the office from 1939 to 1940, but she was never officially granted the title.