Henry Bailey Stevens

Henry Bailey Stevens (July 13, 1891 – 1976)[1] was an American author, playwright and vegetarianism activist.

Stevens was born in 1891 in Hooksett, New Hampshire.[2] He graduated from Manchester Central High School and Dartmouth College. From 1912, he worked for the Woman's Journal, a women's rights periodical in Boston.[2] Stevens married Agnes Ryan, the managing editor of the Woman's Journal, in 1915.[2] In 1917 Stevens and Ryan resigned from the Woman's Journal, due in part to their opposition to World War I, a belief not generally shared by the suffrage movement.[2]

Stevens and his wife were associated with Emarel Freshel's Millennium Guild, an animal rights organization.[3]

Stevens believed that humans were originally pacifists and vegetarians.[4] He authored The Recovery of Culture in 1949. The book argues that early humans made the mistake of changing from vegetarianism to flesh-eating and that soil erosion, starving peoples and war is the result.[5] He recommended for people to return to an agricultural plant based culture.

Stevens lived with his wife in an old farmstead at the edge of Durham, New Hampshire.[6] Stevens directed the University of New Hampshire Agricultural Station and Cooperative Extension Service from 1918 until his retirement in 1956. He attended the 1975 World Vegetarian Congress.

Selected publications
  • A Cry Out of the Dark (1919)[7]
  • All Alone in the Country (1921)
  • Tolstoy: A Play in Seven Scenes (1928)
  • The Recovery of Culture (1949, with a foreword by Gerald Heard)

References
  1. "Stevens, Henry Bailey, 1891-1976". Dartmouth Library Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  2. "Guide to the Henry Bailey Stevens and Agnes Ryan Papers, 1891-1974". Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  3. Helstosky, Carol. (2015). The Routledge History of Food. Routledge. pp. 188-189. ISBN 978-0-415-62847-1
  4. Cooper, Helen M; Munich, Adrienne Auslander; Squier, Susan Merrill. (1989). Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. University of North Carolina Press. p. 254. ISBN 0-8078-4256-7
  5. Stevens, Henry Bailey. The Recovery of Culture. Soil Science 70 (4): 333.
  6. Lord, Russell. (1939). The Agrarian Revival: A Study of Agricultural Extension. American Association for Adult Education. p. 202
  7. G. H. C. (1920). Reviewed Work: A Cry Out of the Dark by Henry Bailey Stevens. The Sewanee Review 28 (2): 243-244.
  • "If You Are a Minister," woman suffrage postcard. Social Welfare History Image Portal, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.
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