Helen Rappaport

Helen Rappaport (9 born June 1947), is a British author and former actress. She specialises in the Victorian era and revolutionary Russia In the early nineties she became a copy editor for academic publishers Blackwell and OUP[5] and also contributed to historical and biographical reference works published by for example Cassell and Readers Digest. She became a full-time writer in 1998, writing three books for US publisher ABC-CLIO including An Encyclopaedia of Women Social Reformers in 2001, with a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman. It won an award in 2002 from the American Library Association as an Outstanding Reference Source and according to the Times Higher Education Supplement, 'A splendid book, informative and wide-ranging