women teachers

Here is a picture book biography of Belva Lockwood, a lawyer, activist, and first female presidential candidate, in 1884.

William Gibson's play about teacher Annie Sullivan's determined quest to give twelve-year-old Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute, the gift of language.

Villette was Charlotte Bronte's name for Brussels, Belgium. Charlotte, and her sister, Emily, had studied there in 1842, and Charlotte returned in 1843 to teach there for a year. She hoped the experience would help her to set up a school in her home town of Haworth in Yorkshire, England. Eventually she wrote a novel, with fictional characters, about her time in Brussels.

Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.

Presents the story of Lucy Snowe, which is loosely based upon Bronte's own personal experiences, and her struggles as a teacher in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette, and includes a chronology of Bronte's life along with explanatory notes.

North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.

Dramatizes the story of how Boston teacher Annie Sullivan struggled to communicate with and teach her deaf, blind, and mute student, Helen Keller.

"East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, ... . Agatha has ... just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master. When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking-and attractive-than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. ... But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. ... Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war"--Amazon.com.

After losing his wife in a car accident, a distraught Miles Ryan is able to find love again with his son's teacher, but they soon realize they are linked by a shocking secret.

In 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an isolated area of the Great Smokies.