Early Life
Helen Lyndon Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, the daughter of an unsuccessful bank manager (later demoted to bank clerk) named Travers Robert Goff, who was born in Deptford, south London, England. Following the death of her father, Helen Goff and her mother and sisters moved to Bowral, New South Wales in 1907, and lived there until 1917.
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