Author: Helen Grace Wallace
Author: Helen Grace Wallace (1852–1929)
Alternate Name(s): Gordon Roy (pseudonym)
Biography: Helen Grace Wallace was born on 24 October 1852 in Edinburgh, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Alexander Wallace (1816–1893) the Scottish temperance writer and minister in Glasgow. Wallace grew up in Glasgow and lived most of her life in Scotland. She "inherited her father's literary taste" and wrote a dozen of novels in addition to short stories and articles. Wallace's early novels appeared under the pseudonym "Gordon Roy," a name she dropped in the twentieth century. Towards the end of her life, she moved with her unmarried sister to Torquay (presumably for the gentler weather). She never married and died on 12 January 1944 in Torquay.
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References: 1939 Register; Leeds Mercury (26 August 1893); Literary Year-Book (1922); pers inf (John Herrington); Probate; PC (12 May 1900); Scottish Census (1861, 1871, 1891)
Fiction Titles:
- For Her Sake: A Tale of Life in Ireland. 1 vol. Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons, 1889.
- Her Cousin Adair. 3 vol. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1891.
- For Better, for Worse. 1 vol. London: Alexander Gardner, 1892.
- Lotus or Laurel?. 1 vol. London: Edward Arnold, 1900.
- The Greatest of These. 1 vol. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1901.