Helen Heney Helen Heney i(A26458 works by) (a.k.a. Helen Biddulph Heney; Helen Margaret Elizabeth Heney; H. M. E. Heney)
Born: Established: 1907 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 26 Aug 1990
Gender: Female
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Helen Heney, daughter of Thomas William Heney (qv), and sister of John Heney and Lucy Heney (qqv) was educated at the University of Sydney and lived mainly in Poland from 1929-1935, where she worked as a translator and English teacher. During 1945-47 she worked with the Red Cross and was a social worker with the Agreement for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation in various European countries. As well as fiction, social commentary and translation, she has written a biography, In a Dark Glass : The Story of Paul Edmond Strzelecki (1961) and Australia's Founding Mothers (1978) - a study of Australian women between 1788-1822.

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National Library of Australia (ACT)
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