About Helen Thomas Flexner
Lived 1871 – 1956 (aged 84). Helen Thomas Flexner was an American writer, educator and university teacher.
Helen Thomas Flexner (August 14, 1871 – April 6, 1956) was an American writer and teacher.
Biography Flexner née Thomas was born on August 14, 1871, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her family was Quaker. She had nine siblings. She attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1893.
While studying at Bryn Mawr she met Lucy Donnelly with whom she would travel to Europe. Flexner attended classes at the Collège de France, Leipzig University, and the Sorbonne. After several years in Europe Flexner prevailed on her sister M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) for a job teaching at Bryn Mawr. Both she and Donnelly were hired as instructors in English composition.
Her memoir A Quaker Childhood was published in 1940 by Yale University Press.
Flexner died on April 6, 1956, in the New York City.
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American writer and educator (1871-1956)
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