Florence Guy Seabury
American journalist and feminist essayist (1881-1951)
Florence Guy Seabury (formerly Woolston; April 1881 – October 6, 1951) was an American journalist and feminist essayist, and a member of Heterodoxy.
Early life and education
Florence Guy was born in 1881 in Montclair, New Jersey, the daughter of Ernest Guy and Cordelia Clark Guy. She studied sociology at Columbia University.
Career
Woolston worked as a teacher in the Settlement movement in New York City during the 1910s. She was on the editorial staff of the Russell Sage Foundation, and editor of The Woman Voter, a suffrage magazine. She was a regular contributor to Harper's, The New Republic, Redbook, The Nation, and other popular periodicals, often writing humorous observational essays about gender.
In 1919, she wrote a satirical essay on the "marriage customs" of the women of Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club she belonged to; it was partly modeled on Heterodite Elsie Clews Parsons' serious study of family dynamics, The Family. Her comic essays were collected in The Delicatessen Husband and Other Essays (1926), illustrated by Clarence Day. She also published a book on marital relations, Love is a Challenge (1936), and another, We, the Women (1938).
Personal life
Florence Guy married sociologist Howard B. Woolston in 1904.
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