Harriette R. Shattuck

Harriette R. Shattuck (née, Robinson; December 4, 1850 – March 24, 1937) was an American author, parliamentarian, teacher of parliamentary law, and pioneer suffragist.

[1][2] Shattuck served as assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872, being the first woman to hold such a position.

She wrote several books,[3] including The Story of Dante's Divine Comedy (1887), Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy in Four Acts, Dramatized from Charles Dickens (1880), The "national" Method (1880), Marriage, Its Dangers and Duties (1882), Little Folks East and West (1891), Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law (1891), The Woman's Manuel of Parliamentary Law (1895), Shattuck's Advanced Rules for Large Assemblies (1898), Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy, in Four Acts (1909), and Shattuck's Parliamentary Answers, Alphabetically Arranged (1915).

In addition to studying law,[8] she had the advantage of several years of literary training under the supervision of Theodore D. Weld, of Boston.

[5] Soon after leaving school, she began to write stories for children and articles for the newspapers on different subjects, mainly relating to women.

Her most popular book was the Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law (Boston, 1891), a work that was a recognized standard.