Helen Douglas Irvine

Helen Florence Douglas-Irvine was born in 1880, the daughter of Walter Douglas-Irvine and Anne Frances (née Lloyd), granddaughter of Lord William Robert Keith Douglas (the younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry).{{Cite web|title=Person Page: Helen Florence Douglas|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p67711.htm#i677107|access-date=2020-07-24|website=The Peerage}}

She was one of the first female graduates of St Andrews UniversityThe New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, 17 December 1908. Helen Douglas Irvine MA (St Andrews), "The Case for the Scottish Graduates". having read History, near her family home Grangemuir, near Pittenweem in Fife.

Douglas-Irvine wrote seven novels, four books of history, and at least two book-length translations. She was also a contributing author to the Victoria County History book series,{{Cite book|last=Malden|first=Henry Elliot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x96DGjCZQQgC&q=Helen+Douglas+Irvine|title=The Victoria History of the County of Surrey|date=1967|publisher=A. Constable, limited|language=en}} and contributed poetry to the collection A Scallopshell of Quiet (1917).{{Cite book|last1=Dinnis|first1=Enid Maud|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAobAQAAMAAJ&q=Helen+Douglas+Irvine|title=A Scallop shell of quiet|last2=Douglas-Irvine|first2=Helen|last3=Vaughan|first3=Gertrude E. M.|last4=Young|first4=Ruth|date=1917|publisher=B.H. Blackwell|language=en}} She was a clerk with the French Red Cross during World War I.[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6085912 National Archives Catalogue]

Douglas Irvine died on 22 May 1946 from pneumonia in Chile, while researching a book on early Spanish colonial life.{{Cite journal|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|date=1928|title=The Landholding System of Colonial Chile|journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=449–495|doi=10.1215/00182168-8.4.449|issn=0018-2168|oclc=5548604508|doi-access=free}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Deaths |date=29 May 1946 |page=1 |issue=50464 }} She was 66 years old. Her grave is in Dunino, Fife.{{cite news|newspaper=St Andrews Citizen|page=6|title=Dunino - Distingished Author|date=10 August 1946}}

• Magdalena (1936){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=Magdalena|date=1936|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|language=en|oclc=6719234}}
• Fray Mario (1939){{Cite book|last=Douglas Irvine|first=Helen|title=Fray Mario|date=1939|publisher=Longmans|location=Toronto|language=en|oclc=937627538}}
• Mirror of a Dead Lady (1940){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyYuAAAAIAAJ|title=Mirror of a dead lady|date=1940|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.|location=London, New York|language=en|oclc=654865996}}
• Angelic Romance (1941){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=Angelic romance.|date=1941|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|location=London; New York|language=en|oclc=7570733}}
• Sweet is the Rose (1944){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=Sweet is the rose|date=1944|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|location=London; New York|language=en|oclc=63572283}}
• 77 Willow Road (1945){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=... 77 Willow road.|date=1945|publisher=Doubleday, Doran and Co.|location=Garden City, New York|language=en|oclc=1667874}}
• Torchlight Procession (1946){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=Torchlight procession|date=1946|publisher=Longmans, Green|location=London; Toronto|language=en|oclc=952638097}}

• Royal Palaces of Scotland (1911){{Cite book|last=DOUGLAS-IRVINE|first=HELEN|title=Royal palaces of scotland (classic reprint).|date=2016|publisher=FORGOTTEN Books|isbn=978-1-334-05859-2|location=Place of publication not identified|language=en|oclc=983112619}}
• Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England (1912){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43667|title=Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England|date=2013-09-08|language=en}}
• History of London (1912){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiVjZyi2GDUC|title=History of London|date=2009|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4446-1866-2|language=en}}
• The Making of Rural Europe (1923){{Cite book|last=Douglas-Irvine|first=Helen|title=The making of rural Europe|date=1923|publisher=G. Allen & Unwin Ltd.|location=London|language=en|oclc=6405727}}

• (with W.D. MacInnes), Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, A History of English Literature (1926){{Cite book|last1=Legouis|first1=Emile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGEo9eu9CjIC|title=A history of English literature The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)|last2=Cazamian|first2=Louis François|date=1971|publisher=Dent|location=London|isbn=9780460035835|language=en|oclc=1037856909}}
• (with Charlotte Balfour), Saint Catherine of Genoa, Treatise on Purgatory (1946){{Cite book|last1=Catherine|title=Treatise on purgatory / The dialogue / Battista Vernazza ; translated [with an introduction] by Charlotte Balfour and Helen Douglas Irvine.|last2=Vernazza|first2=Battistina|last3=Balfour|first3=Charlotte|last4=Douglas Irvine|first4=Helen|date=1946|publisher=Sheed and Ward|location=London|language=en|oclc=779095531}}

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