Augusta Cooper Bristol

Background

Bristol, Augusta Cooper was born on April 17, 1835 in Croydon, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Otis and Hannah Cooper.

Education

Educated Kimball Union Academy. Became teacher, 1850.

Career

Writer and lecturer on moral and social subjects. Went, 1880, to study equitable association of labor and capital at Guise, France, residing in The Social Palace there 3 months. State lecturer Patrons of Husbandry of New Jersey, 1881-1884.

Teacher of French, since 1899.

Author: Poems, 1868; The Relation of the Maternal Function to the Woman Intellect, 1876. The Philosophy of Art, 1880.

The President Phase of Woman’s Advancement, 1880. Science as the Basis of Morality, 1880 (French edit, 1882).

The Web of Life (poems), 1895.

A Spray of Cosmos, 1904. Address: Vineland, New Jersey.

Achievements

• Augusta Cooper Bristol has been listed as a notable author, lecturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Louis Bristol, 1866 (died 1882).

Father:

Otis Cooper

Mother:

Hannah Cooper

Spouse:

Louis Bristol