Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, the well-known authoress, was born in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1897. She received a preparatory education
in the common schools, then was placed under the instruction of
private tutors, and subsequently studied art and literature abroad.
Returning to this country, she became head assistant in the Chapman
school, Boston, taught for some time in the Hartford female seminary
and finally was made principal of the Van Norman institute, New York.
Marrying John B. Dickinson, a New York banker, she on his death some
years since became professor of belles lettres, emeritus professor and
lecturer at Denver university. She is now connected in an official
capacity with a number of philanthropic and religious institutions,
is the editor of Lend a Hand Magazine, and for ten years has edited
The Silver Cross. She has written poems and works of fiction which are
illustrative of various lines of philanthropic work.