Born, Helena, 1860-1901

Helena Born, a labor organizer, anarchist, and writer, grew up in England in a prosperous family, and turned to socialism early in life. By the time she emigrated to America in 1890 with a close friend, Miriam Daniell, she had rejected socialism for anarchism. She settled in Cambridge (Mass.), and worked as a typesetter and proofreader. She had a deep appreciation of nature, joined the Walt Whitman Fellowship, and wrote "Whitman's ideal democracy, and other writings" (1902).

From the guide to the Helena Born Photographs, 1895-1897, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)

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