Sarah Withers

Sarah Withers is known as an educator and co-creator of the Child's World school readers, a graded series for elementary students. In the Project Gutenberg edition of The Child's World: Third Reader, she is identified as principal of the elementary grades and a critic teacher at Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, working alongside Hetty S. Browne and W. K. Tate.

Library and catalog records show her name attached to multiple volumes in the Child's World series, including primer and reader levels. That suggests her work was closely tied to classroom instruction and teacher training, with a focus on helping children grow into confident readers through stories, poems, and carefully staged lessons.

Very little widely available biographical detail about her life appears in the sources I could confirm, which is often the case for educators whose influence came mainly through textbooks rather than public literary fame. Even so, her books remained visible through library archives and public-domain editions, giving her a lasting place in the history of children's reading instruction.