Maria Sanford is a biography written by Helen Ardell Whitney and published in 1922. The book tells the story of Maria Sanford, a pioneering educator and women's rights advocate who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sanford was born in Connecticut in 1836 and grew up in a family that valued education and social justice. She became a teacher and eventually rose to become a professor at the University of Minnesota, where she taught for...