Helen M. Winslow (1851-1938) was born in Westfield, Vermont, and died in Shirley, Massachusetts. After attending Vermont Normal School, she taught in Vermont for several years before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1883 and beginning a career in journalism. She worked as an editor for the Boston Transcript and the Boston Beacon. She was also editor and publisher of The Club Woman and published the Annual Register of Women's Clubs in America from 1898 until 1930. She was well known for her active membership in several clubs, including the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Boston Authors' Club, New England Women's Press Club, Daughters of Vermont, and Professional Women's Club. She was the Massachusetts State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1900 to 1902, and was director of the board of trustees of the Frances E. Willard National Temperance Hospital.
Winslow was also the author of over a dozen books and many poems. Sometimes writing under the pen name Aunt Philury, most of her books concerned the topics of women's roles and social reform, such as Salome Shepard, Reformer (1893), The Woman of Tomorrow (1905), and A Woman for Mayor (1909). She co-authored Occupations for Women (1898) with suffragist and temperance reformer Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth) Willard, 1839-1898. However she was best known for her popular non-fiction work Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others (1900). In addition to writing, Winslow was a frequent lecturer, and in that capacity was credited with influencing the passage of a mothers' pension bill in New York. She was acquainted with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal (1866-1930), who reported to Eddy in 1897 that Winslow was working for the cause of Christian Science and was practicing it for herself in certain ways. Sometime prior to 1900, she adopted a daughter, Alison Winslow Hitchcock (b. Skelly). Winslow spent the last nine years of her life living with her sister Mary A. Hazen (b. Winslow) in Shirley.
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Helen M. Winslow (1851-1938) was born in Westfield, Vermont, and died in Shirley, Massachusetts. After attending Vermont Normal School, she taught in Vermont for several years before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1883 and beginning a career in journalism. She worked as an editor for the Boston Transcript and the Boston Beacon. She was also editor and publisher of The Club Woman and published the Annual Register of Women's Clubs in America from 1898 until 1930. She was well known for her active membership in several clubs, including the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Boston Authors' Club, New England Women's Press Club, Daughters of Vermont, and Professional Women's Club. She was the Massachusetts State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1900 to 1902, and was director of the board of trustees of the Frances E. Willard National Temperance Hospital.
Winslow was also the author of over a dozen books and many poems. Sometimes writing under the pen name Aunt Philury, most of her books concerned the topics of women's roles and social reform, such as Salome Shepard, Reformer (1893), The Woman of Tomorrow (1905), and A Woman for Mayor (1909). She co-authored Occupations for Women (1898) with suffragist and temperance reformer Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth) Willard, 1839-1898. However she was best known for her popular non-fiction work Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others (1900). In addition to writing, Winslow was a frequent lecturer, and in that capacity was credited with influencing the passage of a mothers' pension bill in New York. She was acquainted with Mary Baker Eddy's student James A. Neal (1866-1930), who reported to Eddy in 1897 that Winslow was working for the cause of Christian Science and was practicing it for herself in certain ways. Sometime prior to 1900, she adopted a daughter, Alison Winslow Hitchcock (b. Skelly). Winslow spent the last nine years of her life living with her sister Mary A. Hazen (b. Winslow) in Shirley.
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