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Helen Rosaline Ashton Jordan (18 October 1891 – 27 June 1958) was a British novelist, literary biographer and physician. Life. Helen Rosaline Ashton was born in Kensington, London, the daughter of Emma Burnie and Arthur Jacob Ashton, KC, Recorder of Manchester. Her brother was Sir Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jan 18, 2024 · The Half-Crown House – Helen Ashton. Posted in A Century of Books, Fiction, Helen Ashton on January 18, 2024| 12 Comments » When I first read The Half-Crown House by Helen Ashton in 2016, it was only my second encounter with her work and it became my second-favourite of her books.
1,470 reviews 38 followers. May 10, 2018. In 1892, a young English architect visits Rome to study its architecture and meets his future wife. This story of Martin’s marriage and career in “bricks and mortar” covers four decades and includes details on changes in architectural fashions.
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Sep 30, 2023 · My favourite writing discovery over the past year has been the now largely forgotten mid century novelist Helen Ashton. Her early novel, Bricks and Mortar, about the life of an architect from the 19th to the early 20th century, has been republished by the wonderful Persephone Books, but everything else she has written has gone out of print.
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October 18, 1891. Died. June 27, 1958. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. Helen Ashton was the daughter of the Arthur J. Ashton, K.C. Encouraged by her father, the author of a delightful book of legal reminiscences, she wrote three juvenile novels, then her literary work was interrupted by WWI and she took up nursing.
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Born Helen Rosaline Ashton on October 18, 1891, in London, England; died in 1958; daughter of Arthur J. (king's counsel) and Emma (Burnie) Ashton; sister of Leigh Ashton (director of the Victoria and Albert Museum ); educated at London University; earned a medical degree from London University, but largely applied her medical knowledge to her wr...
Helen Ashton, the daughter of a judge and an (amateur) writer, was born in Kensington in 1891. She wrote three novels during WWI while nursing as a VAD and in 1916 began studying medicine, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital until her marriage to Arthur Jordan, a barrister twenty years older than herself, in 1927.
