Helen McMurchie Bott

Helen McMurchie Bott (born 1886) was a Canadian author on child development. Bott held degrees from the University of Toronto (Bachelor's, 1912; Master's, 1923). Her 1933 and 1934 books were the first and second ones published in the Child Development Series of the University of Toronto. She married the psychologist, Edward Alexander Bott (1887–1974), and they had three daughters, among them anthropologist Elizabeth Bott. Bott served as the head of parental education at the Institute of Child Study until 1938.