Lucinda Barbour Helm

Lucinda Barbour Helm
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Lucinda Barbour Helm December 23, 1839 Helm Place, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	November 15, 1897(1897-11-15) (aged 57)
Resting place	Helm Place
Pen name	Lucile
Occupation	author, editor, and women's religious activist
Language	English
Nationality	American

Lucinda Barbour Helm (pen name, Lucile; December 23, 1839 – November 15, 1897) was a 19th-century American author, editor, and women's religious activist from Kentucky. She wrote sketches, short stories, and religious leaflets. Helm published one volume, Gerard: The Call of the Church Bell. She was an active member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the International Christian Workers' Association.

Helm was the founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1892, the publication of a magazine called Our Homes was begun, with Helm as editor. In 1893, she resigned as General Secretary of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society because of overwork and spent her remaining years editing Our Homes. She died in 1897 is buried at her place of birth, Helm Place.^[1]