History Main / Schoolmarm

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Keiko O'Brien sets up a one-room school on DS9 after she finds herself unemployed (she's a botanist on a SpaceStation) and realizes that the crew don't have a school for their children. This is just one of a number of [[SpaceWestern Western tropes used in the series]].

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Keiko O'Brien sets up a one-room school on the eponymous SpaceStation after she finds herself unemployed and realizes that the crew don't have a school for their children. This is just one of a number of [[SpaceWestern Western tropes used in the series]].

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Keiko O'Brien sets up a one-room school on the station after she realizes that the crew don't have a school for their children.

* Keine Kamishirasawa of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is generally portrayed like this in fanworks, usually to the younger youkai characters (though this goes against canon, where she says that she's only willing to teach humans). However, ''Forbidden Scrollery'' josses this portrayal since she's shown to teach at an elementary school with several other teachers.

* Kathryn "Kate" Flores is the teacher in the one-room school in ''WesternAnimation/SpiritRidingFree''. She is relatively new to town and struggles with the idiosyncrasies of some of her students. The protagonist keeps getting in trouble by accidentally breaking her. Much to Lucky's consternation, her widower father starts courting Miss Flores.

* In ''The Master of Triggernometry'' by Creator/JTEson, a local RobberBaron is constantly harassing schoolmasters and driving them out of a small town so he will an uneducated workforce for his factories. Dusty Fog goes undercover as the new schoolmaster to get to the bottom of the problem, with his cousin Betty Hardin posing as his schoolmarm wife. The town is quite pleased to be getting two teachers for their money.

* Cheerilee from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is the teacher at Ponyville's only schoolhouse.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Marzipan is shown as a teacher at a "montessodium school" in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "coloring"; given that her only students are Homestar, Strong Mad, and Homsar and that the main cast are generally implied to be the entire population of Free Country USA, it's likely that she's not just the only teacher but the founder as well.

* One issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Archie}}'' comics put Jughead and Reggie in the Wild West, with Jughead as the town sheriff and Reggie as a card hustler. Reggie agrees to Jughead's challenge that whichever of them draws the low card in the pile will leave town, and when Jughead draws a three, Reggie is pleased to think he's all but won - until he learns that the winner gets the town schoolmarm, Miss Ethel. Much to his relief, Reggie draws a deuce and flees, while Jughead locks himself in jail to keep himself away from Ethel.

* In ''Literature/PatienceAndSarah'', it's mentioned that one of the few jobs unmarried woman can have are being school teachers. 28-year old Patience teaches in the summer.

* Miss Read, the pseudonymous author/narrator of the ''FairacreAndThrushGreen'' 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.
* Literature/JaneEyre is a village schoolmistress for a short while (quite sensible as she'd previously been a governess- one of the few jobs acceptable to women of the landowner caste at the time); a slight variation as in her town, male and female children went to separate schools (seeing as we never meet her male counterpart, presumably St John, the local cleric, teaches the boys during the week)

* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': In order – Emma Beadle (Charlotte Stewart, 1974-1978), Alice Garvey (Heresha Parady, 1978-1979), Eliza Jane Wilder (Lucy Lee Flippin, 1979-1980), Laura Ingalls Wilder (Melissa Gilbert as the series' main protagonist, 1980-1982) and Etta Plum (Leslie Landon, 1982-1984). A few times throughout the series, Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle) would fill in as a substitute teacher, except when the plot called for someone else.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': In "Schooltown Follies" Wirt and Greg meet Miss Langtree, the teacher at a school for {{Civilized Animal}}s, who is heartbroken over her fiancee Jimmy Brown leaving her.

* ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' has a schoolmarm who is exceptionally quick to dish out harsh words and discipline. Unfortunately for protagonist Pete, an outsider boy fleeing from slavery, he is [[CassandraTruth (understandably) disregarded]] when his protest that the disasters happening around him are not his own fault but due to his invisible dragon friend. When she escalates her punishment to beating him with a yardstick, the dragon roars viciously and [[CharacterShapedHole crashes through the school wall]] causing much panic and bringing even more unwanted attention to Pete (although stopping the schoolmarm bullying attitude as she is rendered practically speechless).

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

* Stephane Audran's character in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Boucher Le Boucher]]''. she runs and lives above the village school in a remote but scenic corner of France. She is loved and respected by pupils and parents alike. Then the wife of her assistant teacher is brutally murdered, forcing her to run the school alone...

* ''HeeHaw'': Minnie Pearl was the hapless schoolmarm in "The Schoolroom" segments, with her students always cracking jokes.

* In ''Film/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.

* The ''[[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]] 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.

* The ''[[Franchise/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]] 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.

* 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.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s Marzipan is shown as a teacher at a "montessodium school" in one cartoon; given that her only students are Homestar, Strong Mad, and Homsar and that the main cast are generally implied to be the entire population of Free Country USA, it's likely that she's not just the only teacher but the founder as well.

* They occasionally turn up in classic animated shorts with a school setting.
* Cheerilee from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.''
* Wirt and Greg meet Miss Langtree in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', who is heartbroken over Jimmy Brown leaving her.

** Creator/LMMontgomery's novels ''EmilyOfNewMoon'' also feature such characters, of both genders.

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