Education
Born in Boston, Eddy studied painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and New York"s Art Students League, and began exhibiting photographs in 1890, at nearly 40 years of age.
Born in Boston, Eddy studied painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and New York"s Art Students League, and began exhibiting photographs in 1890, at nearly 40 years of age.
Her most important exhibitions were at the New School of American and the selection of American Women photographers at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. In 1894, Eddy wrote and illustrated a short article "A Good Use for the Camera" for The American Annual of. The American Annual of subsequently ran illustrations by her in 1895 and 1902.
Painting In 1893, Eddy painted a portrait of African-American social reformer, Frederick Douglass.
In the portrait, Douglass holds a baton that symbolizes his authority during his tenure as marshal of the District of Columbia. Douglass sat for the portrait twice during the summer of 1883.
A committed animal rights activist and vegetarian, Eddy founded the Rhode Island Humane Education Association. Between 1899 and 1938, Eddy wrote or compiled five children"s books on animals and their care, which featured photographs of her own felines.
At her death, she was the director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.