Helen Simpson (lecturer)
Helen Macdonald Simpson was a notable New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1890. Norman Richmond was her younger brother.Life
She graduated from Canterbury College, and from the University of London with a PhD.
She taught at Christchurch Training College.
On 29 January 1927, she married Arthur Barrows Simpson.
She wrote The women of New Zealand, a social history survey, which was published in 1940 as part of a government programme to mark 100 years of colonisation of New Zealand.
