Helen Leigh

Helen Leigh (fl. 1788) was an 18th-century English poet.

Life
The only information on Leigh comes from her preface to her one book, published in Manchester by subscription in 1788. There she says: "Though an Apology is undoubtedly requisite for the Publication of the following Sheets, I must confess that I have, in Reality, no plausible one to make, if declaring myself the Wife of a Country Curate, and Mother of seven Children, will not be deemed sufficient." She has been identified as the wife of George Leigh, curate of Middlewich in Cheshire. There is no record of her death, but it is put as before 1795, as George Leigh remarried that year.

Publications

 * Miscellaneous Poems. Manchester, 1788.