Helen Gurley Brown clothes and had an unabashedly good time when those clothes came off." After being gently let go, in 1996 at age 74 due to her increasing disconnection from young women, Helen Gurley Brown went on to be editor of the international "Cosmopolitan" magazines. Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique", disliked what Brown had done in her book and in the magazine. Friedan said that what Brown was doing was "anti-feminist" and an "immature teenage-level sexual fantasy". Feminist views of the magazine were re-evaluated in the 1990s, however, with "New York Times" media reporter Randall Rothenberg writing, "In retrospect, the
Helen Stuart Campbell endocarditis and nephritis in 1918. Her remains were taken to Eliot. Helen Stuart Campbell Helen Stuart Campbell (pen names, Helen Weeks, Helen Campbell, Helen Wheaton; July 5, 1839 – July 22, 1918) was an author, editor, social and industrial reformer, as well as a pioneer in the field of home economics. Her "Household Economics" (1897) was an early textbook in the field of domestic science. Her first literary work was a series of stories for children, which appeared between 1864 and 1870 in "Our Young Folks" and "The Riverside Magazine", and in book form as the "Ainslee Series"; then, in