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May Dickinson Kimball
1867–1955
A nurse and early 20th-century health educator, she wrote practical guides aimed at helping girls and young women care for themselves and for children. Her best-known work reflects a hands-on, reform-minded approach to everyday health and infant care.
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Children well and happy : A manual for the Girl's Health League
by May Dickinson Kimball
About the author
Born in 1867 and living until 1955, she wrote under the name May Dickinson Kimball, and some library records also list her as May Bliss (Dickinson) Kimball. Surviving catalog and public-domain records connect her most clearly with health education rather than fiction.
Her best-known book, Children Well and Happy: A Manual for the Girl's Health League (1918), was published in Boston and focused on personal hygiene, home sanitation, and infant care. Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs describe it as a practical manual for girls and young women, and Harvard Library has noted her influence in the broader health and hygiene movement of the early 1900s.
The record that emerges is of a writer interested in useful knowledge: clear, direct advice meant to improve daily life, especially for girls, mothers, and children. A confirmed portrait was not readily available from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.