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Helen R. Hull


Born
in Albion, Michigan, The United States
March 28, 1888

Died
July 15, 1971


Helen Rose Hull was brought up in Michigan, the eldest child of a schools superintendent and a former teacher. Early on she and her brother became financially responsible for their family.

She went to Lansing High School and Michigan State University and was a schoolteacher; after graduate work she went to Wellesley College to teach creative writing. Here she met Mabel Louise Robinson with whom she lived for the rest of her life. Their home was in New York and, in summer, in North Brooklin, Maine.

She joined the Department of English at Columbia in 1916 and taught there for the next forty years, becoming professor. In New York she was a key member of the Heterodoxy Club, a group of outstanding and unorthodox women. She published numerous sh ...more

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Heat Lightning
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Islanders
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4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1927 — 6 editions
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Quest
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1922 — 14 editions
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Last September
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Landfall
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A Tapping on the Wall
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Frost Flower
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Wind Rose
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Hawk's flight
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Mayling Soong Chiang
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“Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.”
― Helen Hull, Heat Lightning
tags: light, persephone
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