B. (Bertha) Johnston

Best known as the editor of the Kindergarten Magazine and as the author of books such as Home Occupations for Boys and Girls (1908), Bertha Johnston wrote for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in thoughtful, hands-on learning. Her work focused on simple activities that encouraged children to make, observe, and explore.

Published records from the period show her active in educational writing and editing across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She also appears in other historical sources from the 1890s, which helps place her within a lively intellectual world beyond the classroom.

Some biographical details about her life are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so this portrait is necessarily brief. Even so, her surviving books and editorial work make clear that she was part of the movement that shaped kindergarten and primary education for a wide audience.