page_title: Harriet Lummis Smith
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Lummis Smith / Career
caption_attribution_description: Harriet Lummis Smith: The Uncertain Glory , cover by Horace Weston Taylor, published in Boston, 1926
context_page_description: Harriet Lummis Smith was an American novelist and the first Black teacher in Boston Public Schools.
context_section_description: In 1890, she became Boston Public Schools first Black teacher where she taught mathematics and Latin in Boston Public Schools until 1917 before turning to writing full time after a publisher said she was "wasting her time teaching." She began writing for newspapers and magazines as a young woman. Due to the popularity of the Pollyanna series by Eleanor Porter her publisher recruited Smith to continue the series after Porter's death. She wrote four more books for the series with such titles as Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms and Pollyanna's Debt of Honor. None of the books achieved the same popularity as Porter's work and all have since gone out of print.
  She was a member of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore and was made president in 1915. She married William M. Smith in 1905. She lived in Chicago, Baltimore and eventually Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she died in 1947.
caption: Harriet Lummis Smith: The Uncertain Glory, cover by Horace Weston Taylor, published in Boston, 1926
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