Helen Blaxland
Dame Helen Frances Blaxland, DBE (21 June 1907 – 17 December 1989) was an Australian non-fiction writer. She spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was named OBE in 1967. Her other interests included flower arrangement, on which she published two books.
She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 for service to the community in recognition of her contribution to the National Trust of New South Wales and the Parramatta Properties Committee.
Family
Helen Blaxland was the daughter of the late Brigadier General Sir R. M. McCheyne Anderson. She was educated at Bedales in England and later at the Frensham School in Mittagong, New South Wales.
She married Gregory Blaxland on 10 November 1927, and had one daughter, Antonia, who became a photographer. Grieving after her daughter’s death four months earlier, she died on 17 December 1989 at Camden and was cremated.