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Anna Callender Brackett

born 1836


Anna Callender Brackett (born 1836) was an American educator, born in Boston. She taught at the State Normal School in Framingham and in Charleston, became principal of the Normal School in St. Louis, the first woman to hold such a post, and later conducted a school for girls in New York.

She wrote educational essays, stories and poems; her sonnet "In Hades" appears in Stedman's An American Anthology (1900).

  1. In Hades

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