Helen Diner

Helen Diner is the American pseudonym for German-born Bertha Eckstein-Diener. Diner was a member of the “Arthurians,” a group of European intellectuals active in the 1930s, who each adopted a name from Arthur’s Round Table (Diner was Sir Galahad) and took a vow to research an area of knowledge generally unknown to Western audiences. Diner set out to document a feminist history of women, and infused her book, Mothers and Amazons (1930), with lyrical and poetic language.