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Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest was an Australian writer. Born in Queensland in 1872, she married in 1893 and began writing for newspapers to supplement her family's income. She divorced and re-married in 1902, and became a popular writer of short stories and poetry for newspapers and periodicals. Forrest also authored several novels, including The Wild Moth, which was adapted into the film The Moth of Moonbi in 1926.