author
C. Hélène Barker
b. 1868
A practical early-20th-century writer, she is remembered for bringing business-minded efficiency to the everyday work of running a home. Her best-known book turns domestic labor into a subject of clear systems, fair planning, and organization.
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Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework
by C. Hélène Barker
About the author
Clara Hélène Barker, usually published as C. Hélène Barker, was an American author born in 1868. She is chiefly known for Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business Principles Applied to Housework, published in New York in 1915, with a later 1917 edition also recorded.
Her work stands out for treating housework as skilled labor that could be improved through planning, structure, and better management. That practical approach gives her writing a distinctive place among early books on home economics and domestic organization.
Very little biographical information about her appears to be widely available in major online reference sources. Because of that, she is best understood today through her published work rather than through a detailed public life story.