Elizabeth Weston Timlow
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Elizabeth Weston Timlow | |
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| Born | June 24, 1861 Rhinebeck, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 1930 (aged 68) |
| Other names | E. Westyn Timlow |
| Occupations | Educator, writer |
Elizabeth Weston Timlow (June 24, 1861 – June 14, 1930), also written as Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, was an American educator and writer. She wrote seven children's books, and was principal of Cloverside, a girls' boarding school in New Jersey and later in Washington, D.C.[1]
Timlow was born in Rhinebeck, New York, the daughter of Heman Rowlee Timlow and Martha Fay Bigelow Timlow.[2] Her father was an Episcopal clergyman.[3] She attended Wellesley College and Cornell University.[4][5]
Career
In 1894, Timlow and her sisters started a girls' boarding school named Cloverside in Montclair, New Jersey,[6][7] after their father's death left them in need of an income.[3] Elizabeth Timlow was the school's principal.[8][9]
They moved the Cloverside school to Washington, D.C., in 1909.[10][11] She and Florence Breed Khan addressed the graduating class in 1913.[12]
She was traveling in Germany with five students in summer 1914, when German mobilization for World War I began, and she had to guide the party of girls to safety.[13]
They closed the school in 1918.[5]
Timlow also wrote books, beginning with a series of children's books published in the 1890s, Cricket, Cricket at the Seashore, and Eunice and Cricket.[14][15] Further writing for children followed; she also wrote books for general readership, including one about Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire.[16] "Never have I ever read a finer or grander description of a thunderstorm," wrote one reviewer of Timlow's The Heart of Monadnock.[17]
Timlow was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution[18] and active in the Parent Teacher Association in Washington.[19] She advocated smaller class sizes, older teachers, and teaching more study skills than "miscellaneous knowledge."[20] She gave presentations on education and psychology for women's clubs[21] and other community groups,[22][23][24] and on radio programs.[25]
Publications
- Cricket (1895)[citation needed]
- Cricket at the Seashore (1896)[15]
- Eunice and Cricket (1897)[14]
- Dorothy Dot (1898)[26]
- A Nest of Girls; or, Boarding-School Days (1901)[27]
- What Came to Winifred (1901)[citation needed]
- April-Fool Twins (1909)[citation needed]
- The Opportunity of the Teacher (1910)[28]
- The Heart of Monadnock (1922)[16]
- Living as a Fine Art (1930)[citation needed]
