Surname: Wilson Forename(s): Helen King d. 5 May 1935. Nationality: Scottish.
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)