Hannah Maynard Pickard (née, Thompson; pen name, A Lady; November 25, 1812 – March 11, 1844) was a 19th-century American school teacher, preceptress, and author.

[4] In 1838, Thompson became a preceptress at the Wilbraham Academy, and in the spring of the following year, she met Humphrey Pickard, a student at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

After graduating in the summer of 1839, Humphrey returned to New Brunswick, Canada, but the couple wrote letters back and forth to each other.

On October 2, 1841, in Boston, she married Pickard, and shortly afterwards, the couple moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada where her husband had received an appointment to preach.

[4] Hannah Pickard died of heart failure,[1] March 11, 1844, in Sackville, at the age of thirty-two.