Helen Baker

Who is Helen Baker?

Helen Baker, is an English author.

Baker studied economics at the University of York before obtaining a bilingual secretarial certificate from the City of London College and a Certificate of Education from Wolverhampton Technical Teachers' College. She is best known for her books concerning personal finance, particularly Money Matters For Women published by Penguin, later updated as Wealth For Women: Another major theme in her work is Teaching English as a Foreign Language in such books as Teaching A Frenchman English - In and Out of Bed and English - Laugh And Learn.

More recently she has written eight novels based on Jane Austen's books, continuations like Playfulness, a continuation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, completions like The Brothers By Jane Austen And Another Lady and a complete revamping like Miss Jane Austen's Lady Susan – Revived. She has also published many travelogues, drawing on her own experience as an expatriate.