Heloise Edwina Hersey (1855–1933) was an American scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and literature.
The daughter of a doctor from Oxford, Maine,[3] Hersey received her A.B.
In 1878 she was appointed at Smith College, where she worked until 1883[4] teaching rhetoric and Anglo-Saxon,[5] sharing teaching duties with Laurenus Clark Seelye, the college's president.
[6] She was awarded honorary degrees by Bowdoin College (1921) and Tufts University (1922).
[4] Vassar College has a scholarship in her name, the Heloise E. Hersey Fund,[7] "to be expended for the purchase of books, preferably those of recent issue that have real literary value".