Helen Audrey Beecham (21 July 1915 – 31 January 1989) was an English poet, teacher and historian.

Her uncle was the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and her father devoted time to spending his inheritance.

She left with a second class degree and went to live in Paris in the group that included Henry Miller.

[1] Beecham left Oxford and took a job at the University of Nottingham in 1950; she lectured and headed Nightingale Hall.

[1] One anecdote tells of how when faced with demonstrating students intent on occupying one of the buildings she hid the weapons but supplied them with toilet paper.