[1] When she was 12, the family moved from New York, where her father was rector of Grace Chapel on West 22nd Street, to Franconia, New Hampshire.
[2] She gave paid, public talks on the subject to young ladies as a part-time job to help support herself when she was a college student in the 1890s.
[1][2][6] After graduating from college, she continued to lecture to young ladies on a range of topics and also worked as a tutor in subjects including Greek.
[1][2][6] She was a founding member of the Colony Club[2] and was an author, penning such books as Mothers and Daughters, Psychology of Youth, and Flower and Kitchen Gardens.
[1] In a February 1908 talk that Finch gave at the Civitas Club in New York City, she said: Evolutionary and revolutionary methods [of education] will bring the real resurrection, the Renaissance of man!
We are passing through an economic age, and though conservative folk are usually the most popular it is our real work to enlarge the social conscience; our ancestors barely kept themselves alive, we have made a living, and our descendants will pass ascetic beautiful lives, never selfishly nor foolishly, but on a solid foundation and for the advancement of all.
Kitty and Jennie had run a convalescent home in London for suffragettes recovering after they had been imprisoned and force fed.