Miriam Mendes Belisario (Hebrew: מרים מנדס בליסאריו; 30 November 1816 – 1885), also known by the pen name Little Miriam,[1] was an English Jewish writer and educator.
[2] Her paternal grandfather was artist Isaac Mendes Belisario.
[3] Belisario for many years ran an Orthodox girls' school in Clapton founded by her mother in 1807, in which numerous members of the Sephardic community were educated under her direction.
[4][5] She compiled a Hebrew and English Vocabulary for a selection of the daily prayers (1848), and wrote Sabbath Evenings at Home (1856), a collection of dialogues on the Jewish religion.
Belisaro was an influence upon the Christian writer Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.