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Helen Stuart Campbell (1839–1918)

Autor de Darkness and Daylight: ; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

8 Obras 61 Miembros 1 Reseña

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Créditos de la imagen: Helen Stuart Campbell (1839-1918). Image from What a young woman ought to know (1913) by Mary Wood-Allen

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Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1839-07-05
Fecha de fallecimiento
1918-07-22
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Lockport, New York, USA
Ocupaciones
social reformer
home economist
children's book author
biographer
novelist
professor
Organizaciones
University of Wisconsin
Kansas State Agricultural College
Biografía breve
Helen Stuart Campbell was an author, reformer, and a pioneer in the home economics movement. Early in her writing career she published children's stories under her married name, Helen Weeks. She is best known for her 1882 book, The Problems of the Poor. Her 1893 book, Darkness and Daylight, or Shadows of New York Life, promoted social reform. She was also the author of a biography of Anne Bradstreet published in 1891.

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I will have to confess that I bought this one for the cover - it is a beautiful addition to my bookshelf. But I actually read some of it, after reading Blanche Wiesen Cooke's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. As a young woman, Roosevelt also did volunteer work in the tenements of New York.

title page:
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life. A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis with Hundreds of Thrilling Anecdotes and Incidents, Sketches of Life and Character, Humorous Stories, Touching Home Scenes, and Tales of Tender Pathos, Drawn from the Bright and Shady Sides of the Great Under World of New York.
by Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist. Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist. Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of N.Y. Police and Detectives.
With Highly Interesting Descriptions of Little known Phases of New York Life; and an Account of Detective Byrnes's Thirty Years Experiences and Reminiscences Written by Himself from his Private Diary. With an Introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D. Pastor of Plymouth Church. Superbly Illustrated with Two Hundred and Fifty Engravings from Photographs Taken from Life Expressly for This Work, Mostly by Flash-Light, and Reproduced in Exact Facsimile by Eminent Artists.
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Obras
8
Miembros
61
Popularidad
#274,234
Reseñas
1
ISBNs
30

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