Agnes Repplier

Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist. Repplier was reportedly expelled from two schools for "independent behaviour" and illiterate until the age of ten. She received mentoring in writing by a nun who was herself a noted writer, Mary Paulina Finn, who published books, poetry and plays under the pseudonym M. S. Pine. Despite her school experiences, Repplier became one of America's chief representatives of the discursive essay, displaying wide reading and apt quotation. …