Helen Stuart Campbell (1839-1918) was a social reformer and pioneer in the field of home economics. Campbell wrote several important studies about women trapped in poverty, and the role that effective home economics could play in lifting women and families out of poverty. Amongst her works are The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking (1881/93), The Problem of the Poor: A Record of Quite Work in Unquiet Places (1882), Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives (1889), Anne Bradstreet and Her Time (1891) and Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future (1893).