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Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee
A teacher, traveler, and writer, she captured her experiences in the Philippines in the engaging 1910 memoir A Woman’s Impressions of the Philippines. Her life also included wartime service as a World War I canteen worker.
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The Locusts' Years
by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee
About the author
Born in October 1864 in Quincy, Illinois, Mary Helen Fee was the daughter of John Fee, a physician in Kansas City and a Civil War army surgeon, and Louisa Wilcox Fee.
Fee taught English and history at the Normal School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, now Southeast Missouri State University. After earning a teaching credential from the University of Chicago in 1901, she joined the “Thomasites,” American educators who traveled to the Philippines to teach in August of that year.
Her experiences became the basis for A Woman’s Impressions of the Philippines, published by A. C. McClurg & Company in 1910. She also worked as a canteen worker during World War I and wrote The Locusts’ Years.