Edith Adams Stewart (b. Adams) (1867-1928) was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Joseph A. Adams, a student of Mary Baker Eddy who was active in establishing Christian Science in Chicago, Illinois. When she was seven years old she immigrated with her family to the United States, and they lived in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. After her mother died in 1877, she and four of her brothers, Wesley, Burton, Albert, and John Adams, were sent to live and attend school in Oberlin, Ohio. By the late 1880s she had moved to Chicago, where she assisted her father in selling and distributing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In 1890 she married James A. Stewart in Racine, Wisconsin. He was a bookkeeper for an insurance company. After their marriage they lived in Chicago until moving to Milwaukee in 1898. Considered a pioneer in the dramatic uplift movement, Stewart became a nationally known dramatic reader, also performing internationally. She organized and served as the first president of the Drama Club of Milwaukee and founded and directed the Milwaukee Little Theater, which she later transformed into the Bluebird Sailors' and Soldiers' Home Club. She was president of the Milwaukee Women's Air Council and a member of the City Club.

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