Helen Churchill Candee

Helen Churchill Candee (1858–1949) was an American writer, journalist, decorator and campaigner for women's rights. After separating from her husband, she supported her children by writing, publishing How Women May Earn a Living, a novel set in Oklahoma, and books on decorative arts such as Decorative Styles and Periods and The Tapestry Book. She was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. In later life she traveled widely in Asia and wrote Angkor the Magnificent and other books on Southeast Asia.