Winslow, Helen M
Entry updated 6 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1851-1938) US author, much of whose work advocates a moderate Feminism in which the central focus seems to be on equality of opportunity between the sexes, as in the nonfantastic A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-Day (1909), whose victorious female mayor is much interested in hygiene, and has the city scrubbed clean. Of sf interest is the Near Future Salome Shepard, Reformer (1893), the eponymous protagonist of which, who happens to be a factory owner, is inspired to create a Utopia with evenhanded justice (and job opportunities) for both sexes, with both libraries and dancing halls. Winslow seems best known today, sadly, for a Cat book, Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others (1900). [JC]
Helen Maria Winslow
born Westfield, Vermont: 13 April 1851
died 1938
works
- Salome Shepard, Reformer (Boston, Massachusetts: Arena Publishing Company, 1893) [hb/]
- A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-Day (Chicago, Illinois: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1909) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The Woman of Tomorrow (New York: James Pott and Company, 1905) [nonfiction: hb/]
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