Helen Ashton

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Helen Ashton


Born
in Kensington, The United Kingdom
October 18, 1891

Died
June 27, 1958

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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. In 1916 she began studying medicine, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital until her marriage to Arthur Jordan, a barrister twenty years older than herself, in 1927.

Over the next thirty years Ashton published 25 novels: Doctor Serocold (1930), her most successful, was about a day in the life of an English country doctor; Bricks and Mortar (1932) is about the life of an architect over forty years; and from 1941-7 she published an excellent quartet of novels about contemporary village life.


Average rating: 3.67 · 194 ratings · 52 reviews · 84 distinct worksSimilar authors
Bricks and Mortar

3.70 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1932 — 6 editions
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Half-crown House

3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions
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Parson Austen's Daughter

3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1982 — 11 editions
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Dr Serocold

4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1930 — 9 editions
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Yeoman's Hospital

3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1944 — 10 editions
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Footman In Powder

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Return to Cheltenham

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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The Swan of Usk: A Historic...

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