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Author: Helen F. Hetherington

Author: Helen F. Hetherington (1845–1916)

Alternate Name(s): Helena Gullifer (pseudonym)

Biography: Helen Frances Hetherington was born in 1845 in London, the daughter of chancery barrister Wilson Hetherington. Her childhood home faced Hyde Park in the Paddington neighborhood. She began writing fiction beginning with Trust Her Not (1881) under the pseudonym "Helena Gullifer" (which she subsequently dropped). She never married and moved with her sisters to Carshatton near Epsom where she lived the remainder of her life. Her last three published novels were co-written by the local clergyman Henry Darwin Burton, including Paul Nugent, Materialist (1890) which was meant as an answer to Robert Elsmere. Hetherington continued to write serial fiction into the twentieth century. She died on 29 February 1916 in Carshatton.

References: British Census (1851, 1871, 1891, 1901, 1911); Probate

Fiction Titles:

1. Trust Her Not.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1881.
2. A Fool for his Pains.  3 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1883.
3. Paul Nugent, Materialist.  2 vol.  London: Griffith and Farran, 1890.
4. No Compromise.  3 vol.  London: Griffith and Farran, 1892.
5. Led On.  3 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1894.