# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-a-swift
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:28.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-a-swift"
name: "Mary A. Swift"
slug: "mary-a-swift"
description: "Mary Amelia Swift was an American teacher and textbook writer. Little is known of her early life, though she was raised in western and central Connecticut. In 1833, she became the principal of the Litchfield Female Academy, leading the school for three years. That year, noting a need to teach basic science and finding no adequate textbooks, she wrote First Lessons on Natural Philosophy–Part First. It was one of the first scientific texts written by a woman and was based on her observations of teaching needs from her classroom experience. Three years later she wrote a more advanced textbook for older children, First Lessons on Natural Philosophy–Part Second."
tagline: "American teacher and textbook writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1812-09-17"
deathDate: "1875-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.934593333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Amelia_Swift"
    title: "Mary Amelia Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "مری آملیا سوئیفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Amelia_Swift"
    title: "Mary Amelia Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%81%D9%B9"
    title: "مریم امیلیا سوئفٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104147366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump