Helen C. White
Helen C. White was a professor of English at the University of WisconsinMadison. White twice served as the English department chair and was the first woman to become a full professor in the universitys College of Letters and Science. She was also the first woman elected president of the American Association of University Professors, and a president of the American Association of University Women , University of Wisconsin Teachers Union, and University Club. White wrote six novels and numerous nonfiction books and articles.
Helen Constance White was born November 26, 1896, in New Haven, Connecticut. Her parents, Mary and John White, had three other children and ran a Roman Catholic household, a faith White maintained passionately for the rest of her life. In 1901, her parents chose to settle in the new Boston suburb Roslindale for the citys cultural opportunities. Whites father left his job as a New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad clerk to become a civil servant. White described her mother as matriarchal and her father as secretive.
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