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Helen Corke

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Helen Corke

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1882 （Hastings, East Sussex, England）
Died
1978 age 96
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Congregationalist
Residence History
Hastings, East Sussex → Croydon

Career

Occupations
Writer, schoolteacher
Active Years
1908-1978
Influenced
D. H. Lawrence

Awards

Whitbread Award
1975
Work: In Our Infancy: an Autobiography
Result: won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

In Our Infancy: an Autobiography

1975 Autobiography

Autobiography covering 1882-1912. Winner of the Whitbread Award.

D.H. Lawrence: the Croydon years

1965 Biography

Biography of D.H. Lawrence's Croydon years.

Neutral Ground

1933 Memoir

Memoir based on her diary of Herbert Macartney, inspiring Lawrence's The Trespasser.

Lawrence & Apocalypse

1933 Memoir

Memoir on Lawrence.

Bibliography

  • Lawrence & Apocalypse (1933)
  • D.H. Lawrence's 'Princess.' A Memory of Jessie Chambers (1951)
  • D.H. Lawrence: the Croydon years (1965)
  • Neutral Ground (1966)
  • In Our Infancy: an Autobiography (1975)
  • The World's Family (1930)
  • A Book of Ancient Peoples (1931)
  • A Book of Modern Peoples (1933)
  • Towards Economic Freedom: an Outline of World Economic History (1937)
  • Songs of Autumn, and Other Poems (1960)

Legacy

Intimate friend of D.H. Lawrence, whose diary inspired his novel The Trespasser. Won the Whitbread Award late in life for her autobiography.

Trivia

  • Her diary inspired D.H. Lawrence's novel The Trespasser.
  • Met and befriended D.H. Lawrence while teaching in Croydon.