Frances Theresa Elizabeth Peet Russell (May 18, 1873 – February 15, 1936) was an American writer and professor.

[5][2] From 1895 to 1900, she was a teacher in Iowa, excluding from 1898 to 1899 when she was at Radcliffe College to complete graduate work.

[7] Frank died in November 1903, and in 1906 Theresa chronicled their travels in a 12-part series in Out West magazine.

[11] Russell described satire as "humorous criticism of human foibles and faults, or of life itself, directed especially against deception, and expressed with sufficient art to be accounted as literature".

[13] The book The Significance of Anthony Trollope said that Satire in the Victorian Novel is "particularly noteworthy" and mentions page 117 in which Russell states of Anthony Trollope that he is "the real Victorian Shakespeare in the matter of women".