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Dorothy Celeste Boulding was born in Norfolk, Virginia around 1898 to Benjamin and Florence Ruffin Boulding. She spent much of her childhood in Boston, living with an aunt while her mother recovered from an illness. Boulding graduated from the Girls’…

In her essay “Our Chief Concern,” published in the Journal of Education in 1906, Arnold argued for the importance of individual attention in schools for all children, including young girls.

Sarah Louise Arnold is buried beside Dr. Mary Gould Hood at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Arnold's hometown of Abingdon, Plymouth County, MA. Arnold and Hood lived together from 1895 to Hood's death in 1938. Robert Grose, Arnold’s grandnephew, noted the…