Abbott dididik di tiga sekolah seni di Philadelphia dan Paris dan dipengaruhi oleh Howard Pyle. Dia termasuk di antara sekelompok Wanita Baru yang mencari peluang pendidikan dan profesional bagi wanita, termasuk mendirikan asosiasi seni profesional seperti The Plastic Club untuk mempromosikan karya mereka. Dia menikah dengan sesama artis dan pengacara C. Benang Abbott.
Galeri
Rose Valley folding screen, 1903 or 1904
"Now and again I stumbled," for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, 1911. Delaware Art Museum.
"Rustle and shake yourself, dear tree. And silver and gold throw down to me," for Cinderella, 1920[4]
"She looked around, and saw swans come flying through the air", Six Swans for Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1920[5]
"The griffin carried them over the Red Sea", Soaring Lark for Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1920[6]
Catatan
^Abbott's year of birth is generally stated as 1875[1][2] Primary passport and ship registers generally show her date of birth as October 18, 1875, but there are two cases where the date of birth is October 18, 1876. Census records sometimes show her year of birth as 1876, which is an estimate calculation based upon age at the date of the census, rather than an exact calculation based upon her date of birth. A family member believes that her year of birth is 1876, without noting a published source.