Elizabeth Helme was an English

England

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 novelist and translator of the 18th century.

She was born in County Durham

County Durham

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, but her maiden name is not known. The family moved to London

London

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, where she met William Helme, who became her husband. They had five children. One of their daughters, Elizabeth Somerville, was also a novelist. Elizabeth Helme is also known to have worked as a teacher, and her translations included two children's plays by Johann Heinrich Campe, Cortez (1799) and Pizarro (1800).

Novels

• Louisa; or the Cottage on the Moor (1787)
• The Farmer of Inglewood Forest (1796)
• Albert, or The Wilds of Strathnavern (1799)
• St Margaret's Cave (1801)
• St Clair of the Isles (1803)
• The Pilgrim of the Cross, or Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray (1805)
• Maternal Instruction or Family Conversations on Moral and Entertaining Subjects (1807)
• Columbus; or, The discovery of America, as related by a father to his child (translated from the German original by Campe) (1811)
• Magdalen, or The Penitent of Godstow' (1812)
• Modern Times (1814) (published posthumously)

Other works

• Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope (1790)
• Instructive rambles in London (1798)
• The History of Scotland (1806)

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