Helen Kendrick Johnson

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Helen Kendrick Johnson

1844–1917

A 19th-century American writer and editor, she is best remembered for her outspoken role in the anti-suffrage movement and for writing Woman and the Republic. Her career also included poetry, journalism, and club work in New York literary circles.

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Woman and the Republic A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

Woman and the Republic A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

by Helen Kendrick Johnson

About the author

Born in Hamilton, New York, in 1844, Helen Kendrick Johnson was an American writer, poet, and editor. She married author and editor Rossiter Johnson in 1869, and her work ranged from verse and essays to editorial projects and social commentary.

She was active in New York literary and club life, helping found the Meridian Club and serving as editor of the American Woman’s Journal in the 1890s. Today she is most often noted for her opposition to woman suffrage, especially through her 1897 book Woman and the Republic, which set out arguments against the movement.

Johnson died in 1917. Although her political views remain controversial, her writing offers a clear window into one important side of public debate in the United States at the end of the 19th century.