Study of Child Nature (1890 – which saw 50 editions published in the following years), In Storyland (1895), Some Silent Teachers (1903), Misunderstood Children (1908), Montessori and the Kindergarten (1913) and The Unseen Side of Child Life (1922). In 1893, the college published Harrison's book, The Kindergarten as an Influence in Modern Civilization, in which she explained, "how to teach the child from the beginning of his existence that all things are connected [and] how to lead him to this vital truth from his own observation . . .." Harrison's autobiography, Sketches Along Life's Road, was edited and published in Boston in 1930, after her death. Influence Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams of Hull House, said of her colleague and friend, that Elizabeth Harrison "has done more good than any woman I know. She has brought light and power to all the educational world." In the 1890s, Harrison organized a series of annual conferences in Chicago, which led to the founding of what is today the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA). References External links and sources National-Louis University National–Louis University Online Archive and Special Collections Famous American Women: A Biographical Dictionary from Colonial Times to the Present ed. Robert McHenry (Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1980) p. 179. Founders of schools in the United States University and college founders 1849 births 1927 deaths American women academics American educational theorists American education writers Heads of universities and colleges in the United States Women heads of universities and colleges National Louis University Women educational theorists 19th-century American educators 20th-century American educators American academic administrators 19th-century American women educators 20th-century American women educators