Book Cover of Helen Rowland

Timeline

Lifetime: 1875 - 1950 Passed: ≈ 74 years ago

Title

American Journalist, Humorist

Country/Nationality

United States
Wikipedia

Helen Rowland

Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).

She is often confused with the vaudevillian and singer Helen Rowland, who was later billed professionally as Helene Daniels. Born as Helen Hannah Rubin (September 28, 1908, Bronx, New York - October 15th, 1992, New York), she started in 1927 as a vaudeville performer, opposite Ohio native "Muriel Malone" (born c.1910/1911 - died April, 1980, Greenville, South Carolina) as duo "Rubin and Malone", and sang on radio and recordings during the 1930s and early 1940s. A silent film child actress, also had the same name, and was often credited as "Baby Helen Rowland" and briefly as "Baby Helen Lee" (during her second film appearance), distinguishing her from both the journalist and the singer.

Books by Helen Rowland

A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Cover image

A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

Fiction Humour
Family Relationships

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel. From the text: A man is like a park squi...

Guide to Men Cover image

Guide to Men

Satire Comedy Essays
Marriage Love Satire Culture Society Observation Relationships Women Humor Wit Men Gender relations

Helen Rowland's "Guide to Men" is a collection of witty observations and reflections on the complexities of relationships between men and women. Through a series of short essays, poems, and one-liners, Rowland presents a humorous and insightful comme...