Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (12 December 1865 – 6 July 1950) was an English historian. Her ''Life and Letters'' of

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(1912) and

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(1969), Foxcroft's was—in the opinion of Basil Greenslade—not superseded until 1989 upon the publication of Mark N. Brown's edition.Basil Greenslade, �
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 2 Nov 2009. In 1902 she published ''A Supplement to Burnet's History of my Own Time'' and authored, with T. E. S. Clarke, a biography of Gilbert Burnet.

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