Mary Josephine Lyschinska (11 November 1849 – 30 July 1937), was a Scottish-Polish Kindergarten teacher and writer.

[1] Lyschinska was born in Edinburgh,[2] and was from a Polish noble family that emigrated to Scotland in the 1830s, because of political persecution in their home country.

[citation needed] He father worked as a doctor and had married a Scottish women who he had met in Edinburgh during his studies in medicine.

[3] She trained as a teacher at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus in Germany,[4] and moved to Paris to tutor the children of a noble family, before teaching in England from 1879 under the School Board for London.

[5] As a follower of the revisionist educational methods advocated by the German pedagogue and founder of the kindergarten movement Friedrich Fröbel.