Helen S. Conant

Helen Stevens Conant (October 9, 1839 – April 17, 1899) was an American author, poet, and translator.

[1][2] Her ancestors, John Stevens and Andrew Peters immigrated to Andover, Massachusetts, from England in the mid-17th century.

[4] The couple had one child together, a son named Thomas Peters Conant, on July 11, 1860, in Paris, France.

[1] Conant is best known for writing The Butterfly Hunters, published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields.

[7] Conant co-translated The Ancient Cities of the New World (1887) by Désiré Charnay from French with J.