Noun
A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings. Walter Rauschenbusch
I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism. H. G. Wells
After Shaffer saw her on the stage, he lured Diane Cilento out of semi-retirement to play the town's schoolmistress. Source: Internet
Berg (2004) p. 313. This self-assuredness meant she could be controlling and difficult; her friend Garson Kanin likened her to a schoolmistress, Kanin (1971) p. 54. and she was famously blunt and outspoken. Source: Internet
The former schoolmistress at Roe Head, Miss Wooler, was in Scarborough and she was the only other mourner at Anne's funeral. Source: Internet
His father John was a blacksmith and his mother Gertrude was a schoolmistress. Source: Internet