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HELEN (LADY MARTIN), an English actress; born in London, England, Oct. 11, 1819. She made her professional début as Julia in the "Hunchback" at Covent Garden in January, 1836. She was at once successful, took a leading part in Macready's Shakespearean revivals, in the first representation of Lytton's plays, and in Browning's "Blot in the Scutcheon" and "Strafford." As an interpreter of Shakespeare's heroines, Juliet, Rosalind, Por- FAURE tia, Beatrice, Imogen, Cordelia, and Lady Macbeth, she stood first among the actresses of her time. After her marriage to Theodore Martin, in 1851, she left the stage. In 1885 she published a volume of delightful studies, entitled "On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters." She died in Wales, Oct. 31, 1898.