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Helena Beatrice Richenda Parham (née Saunders, 18 November 1862 – 18 December 1947)

Early life
Helena Beatrice Richenda Saunders was born on 18 November 1862 in Camberwell, Surrey, England to Mary Caroline (née Lindon) and Richard Taylor Saunders. Both of her parents had been born in Plymouth, Devon. Her mother was the daughter of Susan Hayne (née White) and Joseph Lindon, who was a merchant in Plymouth. Her father was engaged with the Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company for many years before opening his own firm as a wholesale tea supplier in 1862.

Early literary and journalistic efforts (1885-1896)
Saunders travelled to the region of Madeira in Portugal to visit an aunt in 1885. She published a book, Contents of a Madeira Mail-Bag under the pseudonym "Ultra Marine" about her trip. It was written as a series of letters to her mother describing her travels and her awakening interest in cultures and flora and fauna that were foreign to England. In the early 1890s, Saunders began publishing stories with J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, under the pen name Haine Whyte. One of her first books was Where Was the Sin, published in 1891. The story was an argument in favor of allowing divorce without having to commit adultery. According to the review in the Bristol Mercury the book was written by an amateur and riddled with misspellings and "polyglot jargon", but the text showed "a profound knowledge of Latin declensions". The following year, she produce a novel, In Part to Blame, which was about a young heiress who was tricked into marrying a man who turned out to be a bigamist and murderer. The review in the Leeds Times said the characters were interesting, but the plot was problematic. The reviewer for The Glasgow Herald agreed and elaborated, saying that the story would have been "capital" had the main plot not been abandoned after chapter two and another heroine introduced. The reviewer suggested that the first part of the book and the last part of the book would have benefitted from a "connecting chapter" which "gather[ed] up the threads". Pearla, or, "In His Name", and Other Tales, published in 1893, contained three "devotional" short stories: "Pearla", "The Lady of the Light", and "A Norwegian Christmas Box". She then founded a magazine, Ideas, in 1895, which was published from Fleet Street, in London. The magazine published poems and moralistic articles on topics like temperance.

Marriage and family life (1896-1920)
In 1896, Saunders accepted a position to work as a journalist in the Cape Colony, now South Africa. On her way there, she met a fellow British traveller, Charles John Parham, who was living in Bulawayo, a town established two years before by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company. Charles was an electrical engineer and miner, who had been born in Canada and worked in Arizona, California, Mexico and Jamaica, before coming to Africa. The couple married on 24 June 1896 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State at St Andrew's Cathedral. The couple's oldest son, Charles Richard Harris Parham, known as Charlie, was born in the Colony of Natal in 1898. After his birth, the family moved to King Williams Town in the Cape Colony (now Qonce, South Africa), where a second son, Wilfrid Laurier, called Laurier, was born in 1900. The three youngest children – Bayard, Beatrice, and Helena – were born before the family moved to New Zealand in 1907. They established a home in Hokitika, in the Westland District.