Helen Corinne Bergen

Helen Corinne Bergen (October 14, 1868 – ?) was an American author and journalist, as well as a musical and dramatic critic. She made elocution one of her principal studies, and appeared at several private concerts as Parthenia in Ingomar, the Barbarian. Her poems appeared in several prominent papers, and received favorable mention from the press and public. Bergen was well-known to the press in Washington, D.C., New York City, and at Lansing, Michigan. they married at Ruston. Mr. Brush admitted that the marriage was the result of impulse, and a divorce was obtained in 1892, contrary to the wishes of Bergen, but with the approval of Bergen's father. in New York City, she married the viscount. This marriage was without the knowledge of the families of the bride and bridegroom, as it was agreed to keep the matter quiet until a special dispensation could be obtained from the pope, when it was intended to recelebrate the marriage in Washington, D.C., at the home of Bergen's family. The dispensation was necessary because of Bergen's 1892 divorce, and as the Viscomte Langlois de Brunner was a Catholic, his marriage would not have been possible other than by such dispensation. On April 14, she was sent by her husband, on account of her ill-health and upon the advice of her mother, to stay with relatives at Bayonne, New Jersey. Two weeks later, she returned to New York City, but again becoming ill, went to the residence of Dr. Goodman for treatment.

In November 1898, Bergen filed for divorce, alleging desertion and abandonment on the part of her husband, beginning May 25, 1896, and that she was unable to ascertain his whereabouts.

The dramatic poem, The Princess Adelaide, was published in book form in 1900.

She married Sumner M. Curtis in 1901. Curtis was the Washington correspondent for the Milwaukee Sentinel and the New York Herald.