Alice Blanchard Coleman

Alice Blanchard Coleman (, Merriam; pen name, Mrs. George W. Coleman; May 7, 1858 – October 22, 1936) was an American missionary society leader. She served as president of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society and of the Council of Women for Home Missions (1908–16). Coleman was a trustee of Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Virginia; Spelman Seminary (now Spelman College), Atlanta, Georgia; and the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston. Writing as "Mrs. George W. Coleman", she made at least two contributions to periodical literature, "The Women's Congress of Missions", 1915, and "Recent developments in Mormonism", 1918. All of Coleman's life was spent in the old South End of Boston.

She was graduated from the Everett Grammar School in 1873, and immediately went abroad with her parents for nine months, spending a large part of the time in London and Paris, and absorbing with great eagerness all that fitted on to the studies of the grammar school, especially the history of England. In September, 1874, she entered Bradford Academy (later, Bradford College), in Bradford, Massachusetts, the oldest academy in New England for young women, where she studied under Miss Annie E. Johnson, its principal, and one of the best-known educators of that time. The four years of boarding school life were marked by the awakening of the missionary spirit and by the resolve to herself to become a foreign missionary. She graduated in 1878,

The Home Mission work brought Coleman into a close relationship to the schools and colleges provided for African-Americans of the South and Coleman was a trustee of Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Virginia, and of Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia.

Coleman favored woman suffrage. She was a member of the Twentieth Century Club, and served as president of the Women's City Club.

Selected works "The Women's Congress of Missions", 1915 "Recent developments in Mormonism", 1918