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Welthy Honsinger Fisher (September 18, 1879 – December 16, 1980) was the American founder of World Education and World Literacy Canada. She was married to Frederick Bohn Fisher, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, missionary, author, and official in Methodist missionary and men's movements. She was an intellectual, activist, and feminist requested by her friend Mohandas Gandhi to begin Literacy House outside of Lucknow, India, at the age of 73.