Helen Ekin Starrett

Starrett was the founder of Kenwood Institute, Chicago,[3] before serving as Principal of Mrs. Starrett's Classical School for Girls, a co-operative with the University of Chicago. This school occupied a colonial home, surrounded by 2 acres (0.81 ha) of lawn. Ten resident pupils were received in the family of the Principal. Day pupils were limited in number to 100. Its certificate admits to Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, as well as to the University of Chicago.[4]

In 1915, she was appointed one of the 100 electors who each five years decided on additions to the list of eminent Americans who would be included in the Hall of Fame established in 1900 by New York University. Starrett and Ida M. Tarbell were the only women who were added to the list of electors at that time.[5] A delegate to the first U.S. woman suffrage convention (1870) and the last (1920), Starrett was the only surviving member of the pioneer suffragettes who first focused public opinion by means of a general convention on the campaign for women's votes.[6]

The Future of Educated Women (1885)

Letters to Elder Daughters, Married and Unmarried (1888)

After College, What?: For Girls (1896)

Starrett was a contributor to magazines, such as The Continent a Presbyterian publication from McCormick Publishing Company,[5] as well as educational and religious journals. She was the author of Future of Educated Women, 1880: Letters to a Daughter, 1882; Letters to Elder Daughters, 1883; Gyppie, an Obituary, 1884; Pete, the Story of a Chicken, 1885; Letters to a Little Girl, 1886; andCrocus and Wintergreen, poems (with her sister, Frances Ekin Allison).[7]

Published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago, The Future Of Educated Women, by Helen Ekin Starrett; and Men, Women And Money, by Frances Ekin Allison, were bound together in one book. The former and larger essay was the more mature of the two, and, although not altogether free from haste and opinionatedness, it had the merit of a point of view. The author discussee the matter of self-support and independence, and that however urgent such may be, they are reduced to insignificance by the necessity of women finding a means of expression for the spiritual growth that takes place in them. She also spoke about labor, like virtue, may be its own reward; and from professional and other means of expressing the fullness of human nature, certainly no one should be debarred. The second essay, by Frances Ekin Allison, is thought out on a lower key, and referenced the independence that a woman feels when she has a source of income in her own right.[8]

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: American Commonwealth Company (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada (Public domain ed.). American Commonwealth Company. ISBN 978-0-8103-4018-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) (1910). Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. 3 (Public domain ed.). The Association.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bacon, Leonard; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Storrs, Richard Salter (1920). The Independent. 101 (Public domain ed.). Independent Publications, incorporated.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1908). Who's who in America. 5 (Public domain ed.). Marquis Who's Who.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: McCormick Publishing Company (1915). Continent. 46 (Public domain ed.). McCormick Publishing Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Unity Publishing Co. (1884). Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion. 11–16 (Public domain ed.). Chicago: Unity Publishing Co.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Kramarae, Cheris; Rakow, Lana F. (15 April 2013). The Revolution in Words. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-03402-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)