Leora Bettison Robinson

Leora Bettison Robinson (, Bettison; June 8, 1840 – January 19, 1914) was an American author and educator of the long nineteenth century. Together with her husband, she established the Holyoke Academy of Louisville, Kentucky. She was the author of The House With Spectacles, Than, Patsy, and other works.

Early life and education Leora Bettison was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, June 8, 1840. Her parents, Dr. Joseph R. Bettison and Ann Eliza Cathcart, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, before she was a year old. The Bettisons were of distinguished Huguenot lineage, being descended from Pierre Robert, of South Carolina. Bettison's family belong to the Cathcarts of Glasgow, Scotland, who, before coming to America in the seventeenth century, had settled in County Antrim, Ireland. Dr. Bettison was a surgeon in the Confederate States Army. Leora was the sixth of eleven children.

In her classes, Robinson's writings attracted attention, and many of her early efforts were published in the local papers.

Career Since the age of sixteen, her life was devoted to educational work, starting as a teacher in the Louisville high school. "The Rich Goose"