Helen Jerome (1878–1966) was a British-Australian (naturalised U.S. citizen) journalist, author and playwright most famous for her adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice, for the stage.
who arrived in Sydney aged 19 with his parents and two younger siblings on 1 August 1863 as assisted passengers on board the "John Temperley".
Her daughter Carmen attended university in the U.S. and married Marc Matson of Washington, D.C.[11] Jerome moved into song writing[12] and adapting novels for the stage in the 1930s.
She wrote the book of the play Pride and Prejudice: a sentimental comedy in 1935 and Jane Eyre: a drama of passions in three acts in 1936.
[2] Jerome's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, led to the successful film version of the book in 1940, directed by Robert Zigler Leonard.