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Edith H. (Edith Hedden) Allen

1869–1938

Best known for Home Missions in Action (1915), this early 20th-century writer explored how Christian mission work connected with social needs across the United States. Her work also places her within broader home-mission publishing efforts of the period.

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Home Missions in Action

Home Missions in Action

by Edith H. (Edith Hedden) Allen

About the author

Published in 1915, Home Missions in Action is the main work I could confirm for this author through library and public-domain records. Catalog and ebook sources identify her as Edith Hedden Allen, born in 1869, and show the book was issued by Fleming H. Revell.

I could also confirm her involvement in Protestant home-mission literature beyond that single volume. In material connected with The Trend of the Races (1922), she is named as chairman of a joint committee on home mission literature representing the Council of Women for Home Missions and the Missionary Education Movement.

Biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources I found. A grave record identifies her as Edith May Hedden Allen and gives her dates as May 30, 1869 to August 25, 1938, with burial in Montclair, New Jersey.