Helen Kirk

Helen Kirk (1827–1895) was a 19th-century Scotch reformer, temperance worker, juvenile magazine editor, and religious writer. She was the first President of the Edinburgh Ladies Prayer Union as well as the President of the Young Women's Gospel Mission.[1] She was intimately associated with the leaders of the Women's Temperance movement in Great Britain and the United States, and was a regular contributor to the press. She was author of numerous tracts and pamphlets, and for 40 years, editor of Dewdrops (juvenile monthly).[2]

  1. ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1928). "KIRK, HELEN.". Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Co. pp. 1470–71. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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