Elisabeth Robinson Scovil

Elisabeth Robinson Scovil (commonly written Elizabeth Robinson Scovil, 1849 – 1934) was a nurse born in New Brunswick. She was among the first to graduate from the Boston Training School for Nurses (now, Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing). She headed the Infirmary at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and wrote for the Ladies' Home Journal.

Biography Elisabeth Robinson Scovil was born on 30 April 1849, in Saint John, New Brunswick. She was the daughter of Samuel James Scovil, a lawyer descended from a line of notable clergy, and Mary Eliza Robinson, great-grandniece of the politician John Robinson.

Scoville went back to Canada in 1903 to take care of her nieces and nephews after the death of her sister-in-law. : The impact of this book can be found in an obituary: "This book, and The Care of Children, so changed women's lives that when [Scovil] traveled by train to British Columbia to attend a meeting of the National Council of Women, groups of women gathered on station platforms, calling her name so they could thank her for the gift of knowledge."