Helen Ekin Starrett

Helen Ekin Starrett (, Ekin; September 19, 1840 – December 16, 1920) was an American educator, author, suffragist, and magazine founder. Long engaged in educational work in Chicago, she founded the Kenwood Institute, and Mrs. Starrett's Classical School for Girls (1893), of which she was principal. Starrett also founded Western Magazine (1880–83, Chicago). (According to her 1920 obituary in The Oregon Daily Journal, Starrett was born September 9, 1840.)

Selected works After college, what? For girls Letters to Elder Daughters The future of educated women, 1885 Letters to a daughter : and a little sermon to school-girls, 1886 The housekeeping of the future, 1890 (with Julia Ward Howe) Gyppy. An obituary, 1890 Letters to a little girl, 1892 A pioneer poet, 1894 (with Benjamin Hathaway) Crocus and wintergreen, 1907 Bereavement and consolation : a little book of poems for Memorial Days, 1919 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago : a study of life on one of the typically ugly streets in the typically "ugly city.", 1920 The Charm of Fine Manners: Being a Series of Letters to a Daughter, 1920 The Charm of a Well Mannered Home. (Originally published under the title "Letters to Elder Daughters.")., 1923