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Helena Wells, later Whitford (1761?–1824) was an American-English novelist and writer at the end of the eighteenth century. ==Biography== Helena Wells was born in South Carolina between 1758 and 1765, the daughter of the printer and bookseller Robert (1727/8-1824) and Mary Wells, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1753. The title page of ''The Stepmother'' describes her as living in Charleston, South Carolina; she "seems to have been a Loyalist who later served as a governess in London".〔J. D. Hart, ''Oxford Companion to American Literature'', 1941〕 Robert became a successful bookbinder, bookseller, and then a printer for The South-Carolina and American General Gazette in 1758. Robert was considered an outspoken and inflexible Loyalist, he and his family moved to London in 1777. Robert was very successful in wartime London, and he got a house in Salisbury Square. After the war, the fortunes were not so great for the family. South Carolina would seize his colonial property and didn't give him a fair compensation. He would die in 1794, insolvent. According to the ODNB, Wells ran a school in London with her sister from 1789 to 1799, and the subject-matter of ''Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females'' suggests a switch of career to that of governess.〔Jane McDermid, (‘Wells , Helena (1761?–1824)’ ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 Nov 2007〕 In 1801 she married Edward Whitford, and had four children.
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