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Mabel Homer Cummings (28 March 1872 - 24 August 1962) was a schoolteacher, headmistress, and the co-author of Asgard Stories, a retelling of Norse Mythology for children.

Biography
Mabel Homer Cummings was the daughter of Charles H. Cummings and Harriet Elizabeth (Whiting) Cummings. She graduated from Brookline High School in 1891 and went on to obtain a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1895. She was a founding member of the College Club of Boston, the first women’s college club in the United States, and bought the building at 76 Marlborough in 1893. She worked as a schoolteacher and school principal in Brookline and Boston from 1895 until at least 1914. In her adult life, she lived with her sister, the horticulturalist and ornithologist Emma G. Cummings. She was a co-founder of the high school Brimmer and May, where Cummings Hall is named after her.