WOOLSON, Abba Louisa Goold, author, born in Windham, Maine, 30 April, 1838. She is the daughter of William Goold, author of " Portland in the Past" (Portland, 1886), and of several historical papers in the " Collections" of the Maine historical society, of which for many years he was corresponding secretary. She passed her early life in Portland, Maine, where she was graduated at the high-school for girls in 1856, and the same year married Moses Woolson, its principal. Mrs. Wool-son has given courses of lectures in Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities on "English Literature in Connection with English History," "The Influence of Foreign Nations upon English Literature," " Dramas of Shakespeare, as Illustrating English History," and "The Historic Cities of Spain." She resides with her husband in Boston, and is a member of literary and philanthropic societies and president of the Castilian club. She has contributed to periodicals, and published " Woman in American Society" (Boston, 1873); "Browsing among Books" (1881); and "George Eliot and her Heroines" (New York, 1886); and edited "Dress Reform," a series of lectures by female physicians of Boston on " Dress as it affects the Health of Women " (Boston, 1874).