author
Helen Kinne
1861–1917
A pioneer of home economics, she helped turn domestic science into a serious academic subject and cowrote practical textbooks that reached generations of students. Her work linked everyday household life with education, health, and the growing professional study of the home.
2 Audiobooks
Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts
by Helen Kinne, Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley
Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making
by Helen Kinne, Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley
About the author
Born on January 31, 1861, Helen Kinne was an American home economist and educator best known for her work at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she served as a professor of domestic science. She studied at Cornell University, and her career reflects the period when household management and nutrition were becoming established fields of higher education.
Kinne wrote college textbooks that helped shape early home economics teaching, including books created with Anna M. Cooley. Among them were Shelter and Clothing and The Home and the Family, works that brought practical instruction in household arts to students in a clear, organized way.
She died on December 29, 1917. Though not widely remembered outside her field today, she played an important part in giving domestic science academic standing and in building a body of teaching materials for the study of everyday life at home.