Helena Wells

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HW , a late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century novelist and conduct-writer brought up in the slave-owning society of the American South, is a conservative with some feminist concerns.

Milestones

About 1761

HW was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest daughter in her family.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94.2 (1824): 569

May 1798

HW , as a Lady, published her first book: The Step-Mother, A Domestic Tale from Real Life.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 764

April 1809

HW (now Whitford) published by subscription Thoughts and Remarks, on Establishing an Institution for the Support and Education of Unportioned Respectable Females.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 447

6 July 1824

HW (now Whitford) died at Mapledon Place, Burton Crescent, London.
This address no longer exists.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94.2 (1824): 569

Biography

Birth and Family

About 1761

HW was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest daughter in her family.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94.2 (1824): 569

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