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| Born | Helen Campbell Stuart July 5, 1839 Lockport, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 2, 1918 (aged 78) Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Eliot, Maine, U.S. |
| Pen name | Helen Weeks, Helen Campbell, Helen Wheaton |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Mrs. Cook's seminary, Bloomington, New Jersey |
| Literary movement | home economics |
| Notable works | Household Economics |
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Helen Stuart Campbell (pen names, Helen Weeks, Helen Campbell, Helen Wheaton;[a] July 5, 1839 – July 22, 1918)[3] was an American author, economist, and editor, as well as a social and industrial reformer. She was a pioneer in the field of home economics.[4] Her Household Economics (1897) was an early textbook in the field of domestic science.[5]
Her first literary work was a series of stories for children, which appeared between 1864 and 1870 in Our Young Folks and The Riverside Magazine, and in book form as the Ainslee Series; then, in rapid succession, she published: His Grandmothers (1877); Six Sinners (1878); Unto the Third and Fourth Generation (1880); Four, and What They Did (1880); The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking; Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes (1881); Patty Pearson's Boy: A Tale of Two Generations (1881); The Problem of the Poor: A Record of Quiet Work in Unquiet Places (1882); Under Green Apple Boughs (1882); The American Girl's Home-Book of Work and Play (1883); The Housekeeper's Year-Book (1888); Mrs. Herndon's Income (1883); The What-to-Do Club: A Story for Girls (1885); Miss Melinda's Opportunity (1886); Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-workers, their Trades and their Lives (1887 and 1893); Roger Berkeley's Probation (1888); Prisoners of Poverty Abroad (1888); Darkness and Daylight (1891); In Foreign Kitchens (1894); Some Passages in the Practice of Dr. Martha Scarborough (1895); and Household Economics (1897).[4] At the turn of the century, she published, Ballantyne: a Novel (1901).[6]
- ^ Room 2012, p. 89.
- ^ Radcliffe College 1971, p. 281.
- ^ Moe, Phyllis (1979). "Helen Stuart Campbell profile". In Mainiero, Lina (ed.). American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. 1. New York, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. pp. 287–89.
- ^ a b White 1899, p. 126.
- ^ Katzman 1981, p. 363.
- ^ Rines & Beach 1905, p. 590.
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