Helen Corke

Helen Corke (1882–1978) was a British writer and schoolteacher best known for her friendship with D.H. Lawrence, whose novel The Trespasser was inspired by her diary of a tragic affair, later published as Neutral Ground (1933). She authored several works on Lawrence including Lawrence & Apocalypse (1933), D.H. Lawrence's Princess (1951), and D.H. Lawrence: the Croydon Years (1965), alongside economic histories, poetry, and her late autobiography In Our Infancy (1975), which won the Whitbread Award.