Who Owned This Book? Helen Welshimer (opens in new tab)

After tracing the inscription in my copy of Gertrude Trevelyan’s Appius and Virginia through the remarkable life of its owner, Elizabeth Seeber, years ago, I often look into the person behind the name written in a used book I’ve bought. Usually, the trail leads to little more than an address and news item or two, and I expected much the same when I typed “Helen Welshimer,” which I found in a copy of Ethel Mannin’s 1935 book Forever Wandering, into my usual first source, newspapers.com.