Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (July 1, 1788 – June 23, 1838) was an American educator and correspondent with the children's writer Maria Edgeworth.
[3] Rachel Mordecai first wrote to author Maria Edgeworth in 1815.
Edgeworth's Harrington (1817) made a better effort at a Jewish character, in response to the criticism from Miss Mordecai.
[7] Rachel Mordecai married widower Aaron Marks Lazarus in 1821, and moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where she lived for the rest of her life.
In 1835, when Rachel Lazarus announced that she felt moved to convert to Christianity, her husband threatened to keep her from her children.