History Main / Schoolmarm

** L.M. Montgomery's novels ''EmilyOfNewMoon'' also feature such characters, of both genders.

* Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston from ''Literature/Christy'' is a city-bred young woman of an affluent Asheville family who is inspired to go teach school in an impoverished Appalachian village in 1912. Needless to say, it's nothing like she thought it would be, in both good ways and bad.

* A {{Game/Munchkin}} set, ''The Good, the Bad and the Munchkin'', which was Western-themed, had a Sidekick card called Schoolmarm, whose "book learning" could [[BadassBookworm help you escape from a trap]].

* Cheerilee in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.

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In fiction, a schoolmarm will tend to be portrayed as rather prim and proper, and will have the best diction in town. This tended to be true in RealLife as well, since most communities had strict moral and behavioral requirements in the contracts for their teachers. In many school districts, teachers had to be single and any "courtship" would raise fears that the town would lose its schoolmarm. Nevertheless, the {{Schoolmarm}} is a frequent choice for female love interest in a {{Western}} as she'll be the only single woman around who isn't [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold in the entertainment industry]].

* ''The Gunfighter'' has the schoolmarm as the secret wife of the lead.

* [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Laura Ingalls]] is a schoolmarm in ''These Happy Golden Years''. Her description of what it was like is generally conceded to be fairly accurate, although the Brewster household may be dramatic license.

* Captain Gunpowder is sweet on the local school mistress in ''WildBoys''.

* To a degree, Mari Nikaido from {{Kinnikuman}}

* Ms.Crabtree from TheLittleRascals shorts.
* In RustlersRhapsody, a "pretty but somehow asexual young schoolmarm" is one of the features found in every single weatern town which hero Rex O'Herlihan has visited.

* ''Holes'' has a schoolmarm who [[spoiler:turns outlaw after her love interest is killed.]]

* The AmericanGirl Kirsten books have Miss Winston, who's nineteen -- same age as the oldest boy in the class. She stays with Kirsten's family for a while.
* Miss Read, the pseudonymous author/narrator of the Fairacre and Thrush Green novels, both {{Barsetshire}} settings, is the schoolmistress of a tiny two-room school in the village of Fairacre, and there's a similar school in Thrush Green.

* The {{Sierra}} Adventure ''Freddy Pharkas - Frontier Pharmacist'' had one of those whose last name even was Primm. However, she turns out to be the villain in the end.

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** Many of the characters did this while paying for college, including Gilbert Blythe. It becomes a plot point that he trades teaching positions with Anne to allow her to be closer to Green Gables.

* Miss Read, the pseudonymous author/narrator of the {{Barsetshire Fairacre}} and {{Barsetshire Thrush Green}} novels, is the schoolmistress of a tiny two-room school in the village of Fairacre, and there's a similar school in Thrush Green.

* Miss Read, the pseudonymous author/narrator of the [[Barsetshire Fairacre]] and [[Barsetshire Thrush Green]] novels, is the schoolmistress of a tiny two-room school in the village of Fairacre, and there's a similar school in Thrush Green.

* AnneOfGreenGables goes to a one-room schoolhouse. The first teacher is male, then Miss Stacy becomes the schoolmarm. Later on, Anne herself takes on the role, and even while attending college takes temporary schoolmarm positions in the summer.

* Raine Sage of ''TalesOfSymphonia'' is fairly grumpy as one of these.

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* [[{{SKJAM}} This Troper's]] parents were both educated by schoolmarms in one-room schoolhouses as children, back in the days before rural electrification reached their respective communities. (ThisTroper is ''old''.) One of his mother's teachers was her eighteen-year-old cousin, who'd just passed her eight-week course to qualify as a schoolmarm. As you might imagine, having several class members be her relatives by blood or marriage caused some discipline problems.
* There are situations like this in certain parts of Latinamerica. [[MakiP This Troper]] knows two people who attented one-teacher schools, they are from a rural area and around 30 years old.
* [[{{TTURTLE}} This troper's]] grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse for a few years in the 1940s. Like a storybook schoolmarm, she boarded with a local family and eventually married the family's bachelor son.
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* [[{{TTURTLE}} This troper's]] grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse for a few years in the 1940s. Like a storybook schoolmarm, she boarded with a local family and eventually married the family's bachelor son.

The DistaffCounterpart was a "schoolmaster" ([[DoubleStandard who WAS expected to be, or become, a family man]]). See also TwoTeacherSchool.

The DistaffCounterpart was a "schoolmaster." See also TwoTeacherSchool.

* ''CatBallou'': Jane Fonda plays a schoolmarm turned {{Outlaw}}.