About Helen Watterson Moody
Lived 1860 – 1928 (aged 68). Helen Watterson Moody was an American writer and journalist.
Helen Watterson Moody (May 17, 1860 – December 14, 1928) was an American journalist and essayist.
Helen Watterson was born on May 17, 1860, in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from the College of Wooster with high honors in 1883, and received a master's in 1887. Albert Shaw reportedly dubbed her the "cleverest newspaper woman in New York" in recognition of those columns.
As its name suggests, A Child's Letters to Her Husband (1903) is a collection of fictional letters—"humorous", with "much feeling" —by a girl named Virginia to her future husband. Some of the letters were first published in McClure's in 1899.
She died on December 14, 1928, at the Adams Hotel in New York City (now 1049 Fifth Avenue).
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American journalist and essayist (1860-1928)
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Helen Watterson Moody was born on 17 May 1860 in Cleveland.
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Helen Watterson Moody died on 14 December 1928 in 1049 5th Avenue.
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Helen Watterson Moody was a writer and journalist.
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