Introduction

Biography

Emilie was the daugh­ter of Hal­vor Poulss­on, a Nor­we­gian im­mi­grant, and Ruth Anne Mit­chell.

After go­ing blind, prob­ab­ly in her teen years, she learned braille at the Perkins School for the Blind in Wa­ter­town, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

She later taught and lec­tured in Bos­ton, and was an ad­vo­cate for ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion and the kin­der­gar­ten move­ment.

Works

• Kindergarten and Pri­ma­ry School for the Blind, with Mi­chael Ag­nag­nos (or An­ag­no­sto­pou­los) (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chus­etts: Rand, Av­ery, 1884)
• Finger Plays for Nur­se­ry and Kin­der­gar­ten (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chus­etts: Lo­throp, Lee & She­pard, 1893)
• In This Child’s World (Spring­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Mil­ton Brad­ley, 1893)
• Nursery Sto­ries and Rhymes (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Lo­throp, 1893)
• Through the Farm­yard Gate, with Lew­is Jes­se Bridg­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Lo­throp, 1896)
• Love and Law in Child Train­ing (Spring­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Mil­ton Brad­ley, 1899)
• Holiday Songs and Ev­ery Day Songs and Games (Spring­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Mil­ton Brad­ley, 1901)
• The Run­away Don­key and Oth­er Rhymes (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chus­etts: Lo­throp, Lee & She­pard, 1905)
• Top-of-the-World Sto­ries for Boys and Girls, with Lau­ra E. Pouls­son & Flo­rence Li­ley Young (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chus­etts: Lo­throp, Lee & She­pard, 1916)
• Rhyme Time for Child­ren (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chus­etts: Lo­throp, Lee & She­pard, 1929)