Florence Guy Seabury (formerly Woolston; April 1881 – October 6, 1951) was an American journalist and feminist essayist, and a member of Heterodoxy.
Florence Guy was born in 1881 in Montclair, New Jersey, [1] the daughter of Ernest Guy and Cordelia Clark Guy. She studied sociology at Columbia University. [2]
Woolston worked as a teacher in the Settlement movement in New York City during the 1910s. [3] She was on the editorial staff of the Russell Sage Foundation, [4] and editor of The Woman Voter, a suffrage magazine. [5] She was a regular contributor to Harper's, The New Republic, Redbook, The Nation, [6] and other popular periodicals, often writing humorous observational essays about gender. [7]
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. [8] [9] [10] Her comic essays were collected in The Delicatessen Husband and Other Essays (1926), [11] illustrated by Clarence Day. [12] She also published a book on marital relations, Love is a Challenge (1936), [13] and another, We, the Women (1938). [14]
Florence Guy married sociologist Howard B. Woolston in 1904. She married her second husband, psychologist David Seabury, in 1923. Both marriages ended in divorce. [15] She died in 1951, age 70. [16]
In 2015, Florence Guy Seabury was included in a large-scale wall diagram of American feminist history, Andrea Geyer's Revolt, They Said, at the Museum of Modern Art. [17]
Florence Guy Seabury (formerly Woolston; April 1881 – October 6, 1951) was an American journalist and feminist essayist, and a member of Heterodoxy.
Florence Guy was born in 1881 in Montclair, New Jersey, [1] the daughter of Ernest Guy and Cordelia Clark Guy. She studied sociology at Columbia University. [2]
Woolston worked as a teacher in the Settlement movement in New York City during the 1910s. [3] She was on the editorial staff of the Russell Sage Foundation, [4] and editor of The Woman Voter, a suffrage magazine. [5] She was a regular contributor to Harper's, The New Republic, Redbook, The Nation, [6] and other popular periodicals, often writing humorous observational essays about gender. [7]
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. [8] [9] [10] Her comic essays were collected in The Delicatessen Husband and Other Essays (1926), [11] illustrated by Clarence Day. [12] She also published a book on marital relations, Love is a Challenge (1936), [13] and another, We, the Women (1938). [14]
Florence Guy married sociologist Howard B. Woolston in 1904. She married her second husband, psychologist David Seabury, in 1923. Both marriages ended in divorce. [15] She died in 1951, age 70. [16]
In 2015, Florence Guy Seabury was included in a large-scale wall diagram of American feminist history, Andrea Geyer's Revolt, They Said, at the Museum of Modern Art. [17]