Elizabeth Weston Timlow

Born in 1861, she was an American writer and educator who is also listed as Elizabeth Westyn Timlow in some sources. She wrote seven children's books and is remembered especially for stories such as the Cricket books, which helped keep her name alive with later readers.

Teaching was a major part of her life. She served as principal of Cloverside, a girls' boarding school that operated first in New Jersey and later in Washington, D.C., and she also wrote on education. That background helps explain the lived-in school settings and steady, observant tone found in her fiction.

Some library and archive records give her dates as 1861–1931, while major biographical sources identify her as born on June 24, 1861, and dying on June 14, 1930. Either way, she belongs to a generation of women who moved between teaching and writing, using both to shape the reading lives of young people.