Best Known For Helen Churchill Candee was a writer and a
survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster. Think you know about
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players.Play Now Helen Churchill Candee was born on October 5,
1859, in New York City. A single mother, she supported herself
and her child by writing. Her works include the early feminist
book How Women May Earn a Living (1900). On April 10, 1912,
Candee boarded the RMS Titanic in Cherbourg, France. After the
doomed ship hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, Candee made it
into Lifeboat 6, along with the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown.
Despite this experience, Candee continued to travel and write
about her experiences. She died in 1949. World traveler and
author Helen Churchill Candee, born Helen Churchill Hungerford
in New York City on October 5, 1859, survived one of the
deadliest sea accidents of the 20th century: She was aboard the
infamous luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, when it sank in 1912.
One of Candee's earlier works as a writer was