10 Facts About Helena Coleman

Helena Coleman was a Canadian poet, music teacher, and writer.

Helena Jane Coleman was born on April 27,1860 in Newcastle, Ontario, to the Rev Francis Coleman, a Methodist minister, and his second wife, English-born Jane C Gould.

Helena Coleman attended Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario, with further study in Germany.

Helena Coleman taught piano at Ontario Ladies' College from 1880 to 1892, as head of the music department, while her brothers' aunt Mary Electa Adams was the principal.

Helena Coleman was a friend of New Zealand writer Edith Joan Lyttelton, during her stays in Canada.

Helena Coleman's poems appeared under dozens of pseudonyms in many Canadian and American magazines, including Atlantic Monthly, Collier's, and Ladies' Home Journal, until 1906, when she published Songs and Sonnets under her own name, by the Tennyson Club of Toronto.

Helena Coleman was a member of the Canadian Authors Association, and of the University Women's Club of Toronto.

Helena Coleman used crutches that she called her "helpers", after surviving polio in childhood.

Helena Coleman lived most of her life in Toronto with her brother Arthur, and with a niece, Helen Helena Coleman.

Helena Coleman died in 1953, aged 93 years, in Toronto.