Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons

Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (1878 Halifax, Virginia – 1956 New Canaan, Connecticut) was an American sculptor.

She sculpted figures for the 1902 St. Louis Exposition's Liberal Arts Building, and in 1908 showed her sculpture Earth Mother at the National Academy of Design. That same year, she married

A quote that appeared in an anonymous newspaper article in the 1920s praised her work.Though intensely reticent about herself one may, if privileged to enter that home, breathe there the spirit of the gifted woman who has been able to imprison in bronze the smile of a little child.

Personal life She married Howard Crosby Parsons in 1908. He was a direct descendant of Charles Willson Peale and they had one child, Edith Gilman Parsons.