Helen Corinne Bergen

Helen Corinne Bergen was born in Delanco, New Jersey, the oldest child of Colonel George B. Bergen and Ella (Winner) Bergen. She grew up in Michigan, where she began writing for the newspapers. She later lived in Washington, D.C., Louisiana, and Texas, working for the Washington Post and various periodicals like the American Magazine and southern newspapers. She was the Post's children's department editor and also wrote music and drama criticism, poetry, sketches, and stories. Her work includes a dramatic poem, The Princess Adelaide, published in book form in 1900, and When Jack Comes Late, a "comedy monologue for a lady" (1893).

In 1894, prospectuses appeared for a new "contemporary review" entitled The Stiletto and the Rose for which Bergen was to be the editor and manager. It intended to focus on articles dealing with leading questions of the day, poetry, and reviews, but it appears that it never actually got off the ground.