Helen Heineman
About Helen heineman
Scholar. Author. President. Wife and Mother.
Literary Tours
Exploring the houses and towns of English authors provided first-hand experience in their lives and novels.
poetry & Watercolors
Other hobbies include poetry and watercolors with a special emphasis on Cape Cod and seascapes.
Testimonials
Emma Redux Two: Full Circle (February 2025). Now Available on Amazon (kindle or paperback)
“Jane Austen’s Emma holds an eminent position, as evidenced by its eight screen and stage versions since 1995. Helen Heineman’s Emma Redux arrives on the scene as a wonderful gift. With wit, warmth, wisdom and a terrific ear, Heineman portrays a whole range of characters, placing those we are familiar with in new and challenging situations and adding a whole new generation with easy authority and unerring authenticity. The wisdom of the novel comes from a new character: ‘We must never stand in the way of anyone’s genuine happiness.’” [BERNARD HORN]
“With verve, daring and deep knowledge, Helen Heineman creates the story of Jane Austen’s characters that the great writer never imagined: the two daughters of Emma and George Knightley and the son of Frank Churchill. In this vividly described world, couples court on horseback, one kiss has potent consequences, and more than one may mean a betrothal. Young women see themselves as independent people, especially when riding on horseback. Austen lives on in Emma Redux because of Heineman’s devotion, skill and brilliant scholarship.” [MIRIAM LEVINE]
Emma Redux One: Happily Ever After (February 2024). Now Available on Amazon (kindle or paperback)
“Full of lightly-worn learning, and crackling with wit and warmth, these stories show us what might have happened after the “happily ever after” of one of the world’s most popular novels.” [ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST]
“If Emma and Mr. Knightley have been waiting two centuries to be brought back to life, Helen Heineman is just the author to do it. Her characters speak ‘Austen’ unerringly, and her scholar’s knowledge of the period fills in details invisible even to Austen.” [ALAN FELDMAN]
Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio University Press, 1979)
“No previous study of Mrs. Trollope has had the biographical data to see her so clearly nor the critical assurance to argue so convincingly for her integrity as a woman writer.” [Library Journal]
“Mrs. Heineman’s biography is itself a triumphant success, at the same time meticulous and enthusiastic…. In all respects this work is so far superior to all other accounts of Mrs. Trollope that no comparison is worthwhile.” [A. F. T. LURCOCK, The Review of English Studies, Volume XXXIII, Issue 131, August 1982, Pages 341–343]
Library Journal
Restless Angels: The Friendship of Six Victorian Women (Ohio University Press, 1983)
“[Among] the two most important books about Victorian England published in the past two years.” [NINA AUERBACH, The Kenyon Review, Volume 7, No. 1, Winter 1985, Pages 120-124]
