Born and raised in Nova Scotia, HELEN MILECETE DUFFUS (1868-1936) was the daughter of prominent Halifax merchant Robert Morrow and his wife Helen Stairs, and sister to another Canadian fiction writer, Susan (Morrow) Jones. While one of her obituaries identifies her as a short story writer and the author of several books, lack of clear attribution surrounding her work (her sister, Susan, frequently used "Helen Milecete" as a pseudonym) continues to obscure the extent of her literary contribution.