Famous European Artists (Esprios Classics)

Sarah Knowles Bolton (September 15 1841 - February 21 1916) was an American writer. She was born in Farmington Connecticut. In 1866 she married Charles E. Bolton a merchant and philanthropist. She wrote extensively for the press was one of the first corresponding secretaries of the Woman's National Temperance Union and was associate editor of the Boston Congregationalist (1878-81). Bolton traveled for two years in Europe studying profit-sharing female higher education and other social questions. Her writings encouraged readers to improve the world about them through faith and hard work.