Helen Swift Neilson (1869 – 18 June 1945) was an American writer and art collector.
Neilson was the daughter of Annie Maria (née Higgins) and Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the meatpacking company Swift & Co.
[1][2] In 1913, her husband died, and in 1917, she married British politician and writer Francis Neilson, with whom she founded the weekly paper The Freeman in 1920.
[3] She is perhaps best known for her book about her parents, titled My Father and My Mother.
She bequeathed several notable paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: This article about an American writer is a stub.