Helen Dawes Brown
Helen Dawes Brown was born in Concord, Mass., and spent her early life there. She graduated from Vassar College in 1878, and spent four years teaching at the college's preparatory department. She moved to New York City and taught English Literature at the Brearley School while also conducting private "parlor lectures."
“She fancied herself superiour to her surroundings: surely there were higher things to live for. Yet the ugliness of this room was but a part of what she felt to be the dreariness of all life outside of books.”
Helen Dawes Brown