Poet. Pseudonym: “H. K. W.” Born c. 1846, according to the 1861 and 1881 Scotland
Census. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for her poem, published on 12 October
1878, gives her name as “Miss Wilson” and her address as 3 Elmbank St, Glasgow (NLS
Dep 341/371). According to the 1881 Census, she lived at this address with her mother,
also called Helen Wilson, and she gave her profession as “author.” She married James
Meldrum c. 1881. Biographical information: Ancestry <https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1119&h=2250832&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=MQB53&_phstart=successSource>,
<https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1080&h=145342&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1119>,
WikiTree <https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wilson-44424> (3 January 2020). (AC)