海伦·玛丽·伊丽莎白·帕特森(Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson)于1848年9月26日出生于德比郡的斯瓦德林科特(英语:Swadlincote),是医生亚历山大·亨利·帕特森(Alexander Henry Paterson)和玛丽·赫福德·帕特森(Mary Herford Paterson)的女儿。海伦是七个孩子中的老大。她出生后的第二年,全家搬到柴郡的奥尔特灵厄姆。1862年,她的父亲和她三岁的妹妹伊莎贝尔在一场流行病中死于白喉。幸存的家人们搬到帕特森亲戚居住的伯明翰生活。[3]
^Devereux, Joanna. The making of women artists in Victorian England: the education and careers of six professionals. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2016: 110, 162. ISBN 9780786494095. OCLC 948560997.
^Allingham illustrated Juliana Ewing's Six to Sixteen: a story for girls (1876) and A Flat Iron for a Farthing
Lester, Anthony J. The Exhibited Works of Helen Allingham, 1848–1926. Oxfordshire: Wallingford. 1979. OCLC 16494169. See also The Exhibited Works of Helen Allingham, R. W. S., 1848–1926. Wallingford. 1979. OCLC 84054249.
Watts, Annabel. Helen Allingham's Cottage Homes – Revisited. 2002. ISBN 9780952388203. OCLC 228661464. Reproductions of Allingham's paintings of cottages along with contemporary photographs of the same structures.
Annabel Watts: article & bibliography in Studies in Illustration no.31/32 Winter 2005/Spring 2006 (Imaginative Book Illustration Society at www.bookillustration.org)