Helen Simpson (other)
Helen Simpson may refer to: * Helen Simpson (lecturer) (1890–1960), New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer * Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897–1940), Australian novelist * Helen Simpson (author) Helen Simpson (born 1957) is an English novelist and short story writer. Early life and education She was born in Bristol, in the West of England, and grew up first in Wealdstone then in a suburb of Croydon where she went to a girls' school. Her ...

Helen Simpson (lecturer)
Helen Macdonald Simpson (21 November 1890 – 6 November 1960) was a notable New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1890. Norman Richmond was her younger brother. Life She graduated from Canterbury College, and from the University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ... with a PhD. She taught at Christchurch Training College. She was the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate, and also the first New Zealand woman to teach at a New Zealand university. On 29 January 1927, she married Arthur Barrows Simpson. She wrote ''The women of New Zealand'', a social history survey, which was published in 1940 as part of a government programme to mark 100 years of colonisation of New Zealand. Referen ...
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Helen De Guerry Simpson
Helen de Guerry Simpson (1 December 1897 – 14 October 1940) was an Australian novelist and British Liberal Party politician. Youth and education Simpson was born in Sydney into a family that had been settled in New South Wales for over 100 years. Her great-grandfather, Piers Simpson, R.N., was associated with Sir Thomas Mitchell and her maternal grandfather, the Marquis de Lauret, settled at Goulburn some 50 years before her birth. Her father, Edward Percy Simpson, was a well-known solicitor at Sydney who married Anne de Lauret. Helen Simpson was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay (now called Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart) and at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga and, in 1914, she went to France for further study. On returning to England she went to Oxford, reading French (1916-1917), at a time when women could study at Oxford but not receive degrees.
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