Harriott Ely Fansler

Harriott Ely Fansler was an American writer and teacher best known for Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer, first published in 1911. Contemporary editions and library records also connect her with The Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy, showing a range that ran from hands-on writing instruction to serious literary scholarship.

The front matter of Types of Prose Narratives identifies her as an assistant professor of English at the University of the Philippines and notes that she had previously taught at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. That places her among the early educators who helped build English-language literary study in the Philippines during the American colonial period.

Later scholarship on Philippine folklore and literature also mentions Harriott Ely Fansler alongside Dean S. Fansler in school reading and folklore work, including the Philippine National Literature Series coedited with Isidoro Panlasigui. Clear, reliable portrait images were not readily available from the sources I could confirm, so no profile image is included here.