Helen de Guerry Simpson

Born: 01-12-1897

Died: 14-10-1940

Status: Ignored

Books: 0 / 22 total (21 not ignored) — 0 eBooks, 0 AudioBooks

eBook status: Skipped: 21

AudioBook status: Skipped: 21

Added by: Contributor to Women’s Weird 2

Added: 2026-09-02

Last updated: 2026-09-19 15:02

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Most recent book on record

Maid No More

Maid No More

Date: 1940

About

NOT Helen Simpson short story writer, born 1959.

Helen Simpson was an Australian-born writer, who lived in England from the age of 16. She studied music at Oxford, before becoming a novelist, a writer of historical biography, a radio broadcaster and a politician.

She joined the 1931 Detection Club, and wrote a chapter for Ask a Policeman 1933.

Works:

Novels:

Acquittal (1925)
The Baseless Fabric (1925)
Cups, Wands and Swords (1927)
Mumbudget (1928)
The Desolate House (1929)
Enter Sir John (1929)(with Clemence Dane)-filmed as Murder! (1930) by Alfred Hitchcock
Printer's Devil (1930)(with Clemence Dane)
Vantage Striker (1931)
Boomerang (1932), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Re-enter Sir John (1932)(with Clemence Dane)
The Woman on the Beast (1933)
The Spanish Marriage (1933)(with Clemence Dane)
Henry VIII (1934)(with Clemence Dane)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1935, produced as a film)
The Female Felon (1935)
Under Capricorn (1937, produced as a film in 1949)
A Woman Among Wild Men (1938)(with Clemence Dane)
Maid No More (1940)

Plays:
Masks (1921)
A Man of His Time (1923)
The Women's Comedy (1926)
Pan in Pimlico (1926)

Poetry:
Philosophies in Little (1921)

Other:
The Happy Housewife (1934)

Translation:
A selection from Louis-Sebastian Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris under the title 'The Waiting City' (1933).