Pen-Portraits of Literary Women with Jeanette L. Gilder (New York: Cassell, 1887) and provided notes for Houghton Mifflin's Riverside editions of Shakespeare's Macbeth (1897), Hamlet (1897), Merchant of Venice (1900), and Twelfth Night (1901). A volume of her selected poems was published as Harvest Home (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1930). She was awarded honorary degrees by New York University in 1908 and Hunter in 1920. Legacy at Hunter Cone was frequently called upon to read occasional poems at college functions, from her student days into her retirement. She wrote the college's alma mater. She retired in 1926, replaced as department head by fiction writer Blanche Colton Williams. In 1927 a fellowship was created in Cone's honor, through donations from students, faculty, and alumni. As of 2020, the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship is still awarded. References External links Finding Aid for Helen Gray Cone Collection, 1859-1934, Hunter College The Ride to the Lady 1859 births 1934 deaths American women poets Hunter College faculty Hunter College alumni Writers from New York City