Helen Macdonald Simpson (21 November 1890 – 6 November 1960) was a notable New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer.

[2] She graduated from Canterbury College, and from the University of London with a PhD.

[3] On 29 January 1927, she married Arthur Barrows Simpson.

She wrote The women of New Zealand, a social history survey, which was published in 1940 as part of a government programme to mark 100 years of colonisation of New Zealand.

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