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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

MISS HELEN MATHERS.

Born 1852.

Age 18.
From a Photo. by Debenham, Regent-street, W.
Age 26.
From a Photo. by Debenham, Regent-st, W.
Age 23.
From a Photo. by Debenham, Regent-street, W.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Esmé Collings, Brighton.


H ELEN MATHERS was quite a girl when she achieved an extraordinary success with "Comin' thro' the Rye." Many other stories followed; and she may be said to have inaugurated the shilling novel with "Found Out." She married, in 1876, Mr. Henry A. Reeves, a well-known hospital surgeon, whose specialty is orthopædics. He is himself an accomplished author, and his favourite recreation is chess. They have one son, who inherits his mother's chief characteristic—brightness.