She earned a Missouri Teacher's Certificate in 1864,[1] and after the Civil War, Eliot founded a school for freed African American students in a church basement in St.
[2] She served as assistant principal of the St. Louis Normal School (now Harris-Stowe State College) under her close friend, Anna Brackett.
Eliot and Brackett associated with the St. Louis Hegelians, and both women later published philosophical works.
In 1872, while in New York, Brackett and Eliot started The Brackett School for Girls,[1] located at 9 West 39th Street, and they hired female teachers such as Mary Mitchell Birchall, the first woman to receive a bachelor's degree from a New England college.
[6] In 1923, Eliot fractured her spine, leading to her death at St. Luke's Hospital on July 2, 1923.