Hélène Gingold

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HG dabbled in many genres. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she wrote four books of poetry, three novels, two short story collections, two plays, and two volumes of satirical sketches of persons in the world of high finance. Though initially well received, she and her works have largely been forgotten.

Milestones

About 1866

Author HG must have been born about this year, if she is the Helen Gingold listed in the British census of 1881 as aged fifteen.
Most reference books, including the Feminist Companion, put her birth eight years later than this, in 1874: a date made close to impossible by the fact that she published a three-volume novel only eleven years after it.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By 8 August 1885

HG published her first book: the three-volume novel Steyneville; or, Fated Fortunes: Being the Memoirs of an Unextraordinary Man.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3015 (1885): 173

By early November 1918

HG published Visions of Mine Head, her fourth book of poems and her final work.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
877 (7 November 1918): 542

1926

HG died, probably aged about sixty, though her own account would make her eight years younger.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Biography

Birth and Background

About 1866

Author HG must have been born about this year, if she is the Helen Gingold listed in the British census of 1881 as aged fifteen.
Most reference books, including the Feminist Companion, put her birth eight years later than this, in 1874: a date made close to impossible by the fact that she published a three-volume novel only eleven years after it.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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