Florence Guy Woolston Seabury (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

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, the daughter of Ernest Guy and Cordelia Clark Guy. She studied sociology at

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Career

Woolston worked as a teacher in the

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during the 1910s. Florence Guy Woolston 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'', ''

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'', '' Redbook'', ''

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'', 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 Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mex ...

' 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. She married her second husband, psychologist David Seabury, in 1923. Both marriages ended in divorce. She died in 1951, age 70. 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

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.Andrea Guyer
''Revolt, They Said''
(Museum of Modern Art, 2012 - ongoing).

References

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