Helen Kirk (1827–1895) was a 19th-century Scotch reformer, temperance worker, juvenile magazine editor, and religious writer.
[1] She was intimately associated with the leaders of the Women's Temperance movement in Great Britain and the United States, and was a regular contributor to the press.
When about 12 years of age, Helen became the subject of serious religious impressions which were strengthened, and culminated in her conversion while on a visit to her brother at Edinburgh.
[2] After some time, she returned to Dunblane and engaged in Sunday school teaching and prison mission work.
In the following year, she published an anonymous pamphlet on the water cure, in which she taught mothers that they should rear children without strong drink.
[1] In 1873 she wrote, at the request of the editor of the Christian World, "An Appeal on Behalf of British Women Against the Use of Tobacco".