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Helen Simpson (Helen de Guerry Simpson (Helen De Guerry Simpson, Winifred Ashton)) was born on 1 December, 1897 in Sydney, Australia, is a writer. Discover Helen Simpson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

Popular As Helen de Guerry Simpson (Helen De Guerry Simpson, Winifred Ashton)
Occupation writer
Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1897
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Sydney, Australia
Date of death 14 October, 1940
Died Place Overbury, Worcestershire, England, UK
Nationality Australia

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Who Is Helen Simpson's Husband?

Her husband is Denis Browne (1927 - 1940) ( her death) ( 1 child)

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Helen Simpson Net Worth

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1897

Writer Helen Simpson was born Helen De Guerry Simpson in Sydney, Australia, in 1897. Her father was a solicitor and her mother the daughter of a member of the French nobility. When she was a child her parents separated; her mother moved to London, England, and her father sent her to a Catholic convent boarding school.

1914

In 1914 she traveled to England to join her mother and attended Oxford in 1915.

1918

In 1918 she joined the Womens Royal Naval Service, posted to the decoding section of the Admiralty, and returned to Oxford the next year. She studied music, intending to become a composer, but became interested in the theatre; she wrote several plays and founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society.

1921

She ran afoul of the college authorities, however, who had strict regulations about male and female students acting together, and left Oxford in 1921 without finishing her degree.

In 1921 she returned to Sydney to attend her brother's wedding. There she published "Philosophies in Little", a collection of verse she had written. Two years later she wrote a play, "A Man of His TIme", based on the life of famed Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini, which was published in a "Sydney Daily Telegraph" literary contest, and was performed in Sydney the next year.

1924

She returned to Oxford in 1924.

1925

She bet someone that she could write a novel in five weeks and, as it turned out, she did--"Acquittal", a detective thriller published in London in 1925. It was a hit, and she turned out several more novels and plays in quick succession.

1927

In 1927 she returned to Australia, and there married Denis Browne, a pediatric surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children. They had a daughter, Clemence (named after her close friend, writer Clemence Dane). She was a prolific writer, turning out a slew of detective novels over the next few years (three of them in collaboration with Dane). She also wrote novels about the history of Australia and a biography of King Henry VIII.

1930

In the 1930s she gave a series of lectures and broadcasts on literary history.

1938

She toured the US in 1938, but by that time her eyesight was failing and she cut back on her writing.

She turned to politics and in 1938 was the Liberal candidate for Parliament for the Isle of Wight.