Anna Eliot Ticknor, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Eliot Ticknor

American author, educator

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1823

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1896

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Anna Eliot Ticknor (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1823 – October 5, 1896) was an American author and educator.
In 1873, Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home which was the first correspondence school in the United States.
She is attributed as being a pioneer of distance learning in the United States, and the mother of correspondence schools.
She served as one of the original appointees to the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission, which was the first of its kind in the United States.
She and Elizabeth Putnam Sohier became the first women appointed to a United States state library agency when they were appointed to that commission in 1890.