Elizabeth Weston Timlow, who also wrote under the name Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, was an American educator and author active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in June 1861, she balanced a career in school administration with the authorship of literature aimed at young readers.\n\nAs an educator, Timlow served as the principal of Cloverside, a boarding school dedicated to the education of young women. Under her leadership, the school operated in New Jersey before eventually relocating to Washington, D.C.\n\nIn addition to her work in education, Timlow was a writer who published seven children's books during her lifetime. Her career reflected the era's growing focus on specialized education and literature for young girls. She passed away in June 1930, shortly before her sixty-ninth birthday.
