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see MALLESON, LUCY BEATRICE
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HOOTON,
E[LSIE]. MAY (?1907 - ?1997)
(uncertain but probable
identification)
1950s – 1960s
Author of eight children's
titles, including one school story, The
Harbord Prize (1955). Others are Anne's
Call (1951), Cherry's Corner
(1953), The Winning Side (1954), Those Terrible Tindalls (1956), Julie's Bicycle (1959), Sally's Summer Adventures (1960), and Wendy (1964).
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Hope, Amanda
see BERRISFORD, JUDITH MARY
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HOPE, CAMILLA (18 Jan 1889 - 1975)
(pseudonym of Grace Elsie Thompson)
1920s
Journalist, biographer and author of three novels. A
blurb for the second, Long Shadows
(1928), reads, "Seeking the motive for the crime leads into the dark
labyrinth of an African city and a mysterious legionnaire." The others
are Moon of Joy (1927) and Curiously Planned (1928). She later
wrote biographies of George IV and William IV, as well as courtesan and
Casanova lover Marianna de Charpillon.
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HOPE, CORAL
(dates unknown)
1940s – 1950s
Untraced author of three
novels. A blurb for Listening Hands
(1944) describes it as the "[s]tory of a concert pianist who encounters
a wraith from the past." The others are The Play of a Lifetime (1946) and The Shadowed Hour (1951). She also published one children's book,
The Flapdoodle Who Always Knew Best
(1945).
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HOPE, ESSEX
(dates unknown)
1930s – 1940s, 1960s
Untraced author of three
children's titles and what may be an adult novel, I Have Come Home (1940). Among her work for children, Pen Goes North (1949) is set partly in
a school. The others are Turned Adrift:
The Story of a Dog (1937) and A Dog
for Richard (1966).
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HOPE, GERTRUDE (dates unknown)
1920s
Untraced author of a single short romance, A Fair Weather Lover (1929).
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HOPE, JANE
(dates unknown)
1940s – 1960s
Untraced author and illustrator of nearly a dozen
humorous works, most concerned with schools or child-rearing. Though
purportedly non-fiction, one assumes that some of her accounts are at least
lightly fictionalized. Titles include Don't
Do It: A Complete Guide to Teaching (1949), One Term at Utopia: Pages from the Diary of Jane Hope (1950), The Inspector Suggests, or, How Not to
Inhibit a Child (1951), The
Scholarship Stakes (1955), Happy
Event: A Humorous Account of a Child's First Year of Life (1957), and The Thin Chalk Line (1962).
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HOPE, NOEL (c1867 - 1950)
(pseudonym of Sarah Louisa Morewood)
1890s – 1930s
Author of numerous children's titles, most with
religious or inspirational themes, including Where Moses Went to School (1909), Jolly the Joker: A Life-Saving Scout Story (1921), Fenella's Fetters, or, Unseen Chains
(1921), Face It Out, or, Straight Roads
Are the Shortest (1928), and Ruth
the Home Maker (1934).
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HOPE-SIMPSON,
JACYNTH (10 Nov 1930 – 3 Jul 2008)
(née Cureton, aka Helen
Dudley)
1960s – 1980s
Author of nearly 30
volumes of fiction for adults and children, as well as several non-fiction
works for children. Children's fiction includes the sports-oriented school
stories Anne, Young Swimmer (1960)
and Young Netball Player (1961), as
well as The Great Fire (1961), Danger on the Line (1962), The Ice Fair (1963), and The Witch's Cave (1964). Her novels
for adults are The Bishop of
Kenelminster (1961), The Bishop's
Picture (1962), The Unravished
Bride (1963), The Hooded Falcon (1979,
as Helen Dudley), Cottage Dreams
(1985), and Island of Perfumes
(1985).
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HORN, KATE
(1866 – 22 Jan 1951)
(pseudonym of Constance
Emma Cromwell Weigall, née Warner, aka C.E.C. Weigall)
1890s – 1920s
Author of
more than 30 novels, mostly lightly humorous romantic tales. I reviewed Edward and I and Mrs Honeybun (1910),
about an impoverished aristocratic couple and an eccentric charwoman, here. Other titles include The Temptation of Dulce Carruthers
(1893), An Angel Unawares: A
Lincolnshire Story (1899), A Wife
Worth Winning (1907), The
Mulberries of Daphne (1910), Susan
and the Duke: A Mere Love Story (1912), The Flute of Arcady (1914), Handley's
Corner (1919), Three Blind Mice
(1923), Beauty and the Pig (1925), Lavinia of Whiteways (1925), and The Verger (1927).
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HORNSBY,
THORA E. (1929 - ????)
(married names Neal and
Clack)
1940s
A precocious literary
prodigy, Hornsby published the first of her three school stories when she was
only 13. Her works, characterized by lots of not entirely believable action
(according to Sims & Clare), are Diana
at School (1944), Three Thrilling
Terms (1946), and The Feud
(1948). She may have relocated to South Africa after her second marriage in 1976.
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HORT, GERTRUDE [MARIA] (c1873 – 17 Dec 1953)
1920s, 1940s
Poet, biographer, and author of two novels—The Peace-Fire: A Story of Somerset
(1929) and Goodman's Ground: A Romance
of the West Country (1946). Information is sparse, but the former at least
may have supernatural themes. She published one biography, Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and
Astrologer (1939).
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HOSIE,
DOROTHEA (1885 – 15 Feb 1959)
(née Soothill)
1940s
Wife of diplomat Sir Alexander Hosie. After his
death she published several works of biography and nonfiction about China.
She made at least one foray into fiction, with The Pool of Ch'ien Lung: A Tale of Modern Peking (1944). See here for more details.
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HOUGH, [HELEN] CHARLOTTE (24 May 1924 – 31 Dec 2008)
(née Woodyadd, later married name Ackroyd)
1950s – 1970s
Mother of novelist Deborah Moggach and author of
more than 20 children's books, including The
Home-Makers (1957), Morton's Pony
(1957), The Trackers (1960), Educating Flora and Other Stories
(1968), Queer Customer (1972), and The Mixture as Before (1978). She also
published a single adult novel, The
Bassington Murder (1980), featuring an amateur sleuth in a small English
village. She began work on a second mystery, but in the 1980s she went to
prison for assisting an elderly friend in committing suicide, and the
experience was so traumatic that she was unable to return to writing. Her
daughter wrote a poignant obituary for the Telegraph, which can be read here.
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HOULT, NORAH
(ELEANOR) (20 Sept 1898 – 1 Apr 1984)
(married name Stonor)
1920s – 1970s
Author of nearly 30 volumes of fiction, including three
story collections. Her most famous work today is There Were No Windows (1944), thanks to its Persephone reprint, a
harrowing but fascinating tale about an elderly woman in London experiencing
dementia in the worst days of the Blitz, accompanied only by surly caregivers
and indifferent others, all women. The novel is reportedly based on the sad
final days of novelist Violet HUNT, who was Hoult's neighbor for a time. House Under Mars (1946) also focuses
primarily on women, set in a boarding house in the late years of the war, and
is a dark but perceptive portrayal of wartime life dominated by pettiness,
spying, moralizing, and cheating. Hoult seems to have had a particular
interest in boarding-houses and apartment buildings, a setting also used in Apartments to Let (1931) and A Death Occurred (1954), the latter
about apartment dwellers coming to terms with the death of a neighbor none of
them liked. Among her other work, Smilin'
on the Vine (1939) and its sequel Augusta
Steps Out (1942) feature a young black woman as their protagonist and Scene for Death (1943) is a sort of
philosophical murder mystery set in a small village during wartime. Hoult had
enough success early in her career to warrant a Selected Stories in 1946. Other novels include Closing Hour (1930), Holy Ireland (1935), Four Women Grow Up (1940), Cocktail Bar (1950), Sister Mavis (1953), Husband and Wife (1959), Only Fools and Horses Work (1969), and
Two Girls in the Big Smoke (1977).
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HOUSELANDER, [FRANCES] CARYLL (1901 – 12 Oct 1954)
1940s
Primarily the author of Catholic inspirational
works, many of which remain in print, including This War Is the Passion (1941), which deals with the Blitz,
Houselander also wrote short fiction and a single novel, The Dry Wood (1947).
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HOWARD,
ELIZABETH JANE (26 Mar 1923 – 2 Jan 2014)
(married names Scott,
Douglas-Henry, and Amis)
1950s – 2010s
Screenwriter and novelist best known for her five
volume saga The Cazalets, comprised
of The Light Years (1990), Marking Time (1991),
Confusion (1993), Casting
Off (1995), and All Change
(2013), which traces one family's experiences during World War II. Howard's
first novel, The Beautiful Visit (1950), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Others include The Sea Change (1959), After
Julius (1965), Odd Girl Out
(1972), Getting It Right (1982),
and Slipstream (2002). Her third
marriage was to novelist Kingsley Amis, which made her for a number of years
stepmother to novelist Martin Amis.
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Howard, Jean
see MACGIBBON, JEAN
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Howard, Linden
see MANLEY-TUCKER, AUDRIE
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Howard, Mary
see EDGAR, MARY
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HOWAT, ETHEL (dates unknown)
1930s
Untraced author of a single short romance, Snake in the Grass (1934).
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HOWE, BEA (BEATRICE) [ISABEL] (21 Dec 1898 - 1992)
(married name Lubbock)
1920s
A fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, Howe
published one short novel, A Fairy
Leapt Upon My Knee (1927), as well as biographies of Jane Loudon and Mary
Eliza Hawels, and a memoir, A Child in
Chile (1957). The Spectator
described Fairy as "a tale of
two shy and delicate lovers and a very odd fairy" and summed it up as
"charmed and wistful, like the tears in the cup of the crown-imperial,
or the opening of evening primroses." Simon at Stuck in a Book reviewed
it here.
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HOWE, DORIS [KATHLEEN] (23 Sept 1904 – 10 Jul 1994)
(aka Newlyn Nash [with Muriel Howe], aka Kaye
Stewart, aka Mary Munro)
1940s – 1970s
Sister of Muriel HOWE. Author of more than 40
novels, mostly romances, though Wild
Garlic (1962) and The Affair at
Claife Manor (1963), written with her sister, seem to be romantic
suspense. Other titles include The
Touchstone (1945), All Vigil Ended
(1947), The Happy Pilgrim (1953), Winter Jasmine (1956), Island Destiny (1958), A Red Rose (1960), The Honey Pot (1962), and The Hotel by the Loch (1977).
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Howe, Ethel
see LEWIS, ETHELREDA
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HOWE, MURIEL (9 Jul 1898 – 4 Dec 1987)
(married name Smithies, aka Newlyn Nash [with sister
Doris Howe])
1940s – 1960s
Sister of Doris HOWE. Author of more than 20 novels,
including at least two collaborations with her sister that appear to have
been romantic suspense. Two of her own titles, The Affair at Falconers (1957) and Pendragon (1958) were more straightforward mysteries. Others are If There Be One (1944), Master of Skelgale (1946), Heatherling (1950), and Beach of Dreams (1961).
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HOWIS, ELAINE [VERA] (1900 - 2001)
(née Vivian)
1950s
Author of four novels—All I Want (1956), The Lily
Pond (1957), Almost an Island
(1958), and Demand Me Nothing
(1960)—and a story collection, Dazzle
the Native (1956), which seem to have been influenced by Virginia WOOLF.
A copy of The Lily Pond was in
Barbara PYM's personal library. I wrote about several of her books here.
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HOY,
ELIZABETH (2 Feb 1898 – 7 Nov 1982)
(pseudonym of Alice Nina
Conarain)
1930s - 1980
Author of more than 60
Mills & Boon romances. Her many titles include Love in Apron Strings (1933), Sally
in the Sunshine (1937), Enchanted
Wilderness (1940), The Dark Loch
(1948), Fanfare for Lovers (1953), City of Dreams (1959), and The Blue Jacaranda (1975).
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HUDDART,
GLADYS M[AUDE]. (dates unknown)
1920s?
Daughter of
Beatrice HERON-MAXWELL. According to OCEF
she published fiction in the 1920s, but I can find no reference to her in the
British Library catalogue or on Google Books. Perhaps her fiction appeared
only in periodicals.
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HUGHES,
MOLLY (MARY) [VIVIAN] (2 Oct 1866 – 29 May 1956)
(née Thomas)
1930s
Author of non-fiction and memoir, as well as one
historical and semi-autobiographical novel, Vivians (1935). She remains best known, however, for her four
memoirs—A London Child of the 1870s
(1934, reprinted by Persephone), A
London Girl of the Eighties (1936), A
London Home of the Nineties (1937), and A London Family Between the Wars (1940).
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HUGHES-GIBB, ELEANOR [MARY] (26 May 1858 – 30 Oct 1947)
(née Wigram)
1900s –
1910s
Author of
several books about botany as well as four novels—The Soul of a Villain (1905), Through
the Rain (1906), His Sister
(1908), and Gilbert Ray (1914). The
last is about labour disputes among iron-workers in northern England.
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HUGHES-STANTON, BARBARA [LOIS] (17 May 1905 – 18 Jun
1975)
(married name Brookes)
1930s
Author of three novels, including Nurse (1933), about "a traditionally
wise and kindly nurse," Family
Affairs (1934), and Never-Ending
(1934).
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HULL,
E[DITH]. M[AUDE]. (16 Aug 1880 – 11 Feb 1947)
(née Henderson, aka Edith
Maud Winstanley)
1910s – 1930s
Author of seven novels, none so famous as her enormously successful debut, The Sheik (1919), which became a film
starring Rudolph Valentino. The Literary
Review called the book "[p]oisonously salacious in conception,"
but that didn't stop the British edition from going through 108 impressions
in the four years after publication. Hull's subsequent novels, including a
sequel, were less successful. Titles are The
Shadow of the East (1921), The
Desert Healer (1923), Sons of the
Sheik (1925), The Lion-Tamer
(1928), The Captive of Sahara
(1931), and The Forest of Terrible
Things (1939, aka Jungle Captive).
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HULL, KATHARINE (18 Jul 1921 – 13 Nov 1977)
(married name Buxton)
1930s – 1940s
Author of four popular children's books with Pamela
WHITLOCK, most famously The Far-Distant
Oxus (1937), written when the pair were still teenagers, about six
children on their own in Exmoor. The others are Escape to Persia (1938), Oxus
in Summer (1939), and Crowns
(1947).
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HULME, AUDREY (dates unknown)
1950s
Untraced author of a single novel, Lawyer's Folly (1959), about the
effects of a solicitor's misconduct on six characters.
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HUMBLE-SMITH,
MYLDREDE (26 Jan 1885 - 1978)
1920s
Author of a single girls'
school novel, The Girls of Chiltern
Towers (1929).
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HUMPHRIES,
HELEN S[PEIRS]. (27 May 1915 - 2014)
(née Dickie, middle name
has sometimes been spelled as Spiers, but her birth record has Speirs)
1950s – 1970s
Author of ten
Christian-themed girls' stories, including a series of six set at St.
Margaret's school—Margaret the Rebel
(1957), Margaret of St. Margaret's
(1959), Changes for St. Margaret's
(1960), St. Margaret's Girls Branch Out
(1961), Return to St. Margaret's
(1962), and St. Margaret's Trials and
Triumphs (1964). Her other, standalone stories are The Strange New Girl (1964), Prudence
Goes Too Far (1966), The Secrets of
the Castle (1967), and The Twins
Who Weren't (1972).
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HUNT, DOROTHY A[LICE]. (26 Feb 1896 – 17 Apr 1982)
(married name Fellows, aka Doric Collyer)
1920s – 1950s
Author whose books have sometimes been misattributed
to Dorothy Alice BONAVIA-HUNT (see my post about working through the
confusion here). This Hunt wrote eight novels, including the
pseudonymous Ann of the House of Barlow
(1926)—the Collyer from her pseudonym was her mother's maiden name—and, under
her own name, Unfettered (1937), Reflection (1937), Vagabonds All (1938), Watching Eyes (1940), Meet Madame Mazova (1942), The Amazing Paradox (1948), and Ashes of Achievement (1959). According
to her grandnephew, she had been an active suffragette and also gave one or
more recitals at London's Wigmore Hall.
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HUNT,
[ISABEL] VIOLET (28 Sept 1862 – 16 Jan 1942)
1890s – 1920s
Novelist and memoirist known for her early "new
woman" novels, her Kensington literary salons, and her affairs with the
likes of W. Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford. The Workaday Woman (1906) flirts with
themes of working women, while White
Rose of Weary Leaf (1908), often considered her best work, was risqué for
its day. Zeppelin Nights (1917),
written with Ford, is a sort of Canterbury Tales for World War I, though the
content is primarily historical and not war-related. The Last Ditch (1918), however, is described as an epistolary
novel about a mother and two daughters and their experiences during the war.
She also earned acclaim for her biography, The Wife of Rossetti: Her Life and Death (1932). Other fiction
includes The Maiden's Progress
(1894), Sooner or Later (1904), The House of Many Mirrors (1915), Their Lives (1916), and Their Hearts (1921), as well as a two
volumes of ghost stories, Tales of the
Uneasy (1911) and More Tales of the
Uneasy (1925). Hunt published a memoir, The Flurried Years (1926), and reportedly inspired two of Ford
Madox Ford's characters—Florence in The
Good Soldier and Sylvia in Parade's
End—as well as Rose in Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence. She also modelled for paintings by Edward
Burne-Jones and Walter Sickert. Hunt's final book appeared in 1932, but her
tragic final illness in London during the Blitz reportedly inspired the main
character in Norah HOULT's powerful novel There
Were No Windows (1944).
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Hunter,
Clementine
see KEYNES, HELEN MARY
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HUNTER, ELIZABETH [MARY TERESA] (24 Oct 1934 – 1 May
2005)
(aka Isobel Chace, aka Elizabeth de Guise)
1960s – 1990s
Author of nearly 50 romances, most for Mills &
Boon and under her Chace pseudonym. Titles include The Japanese Lantern (1960), Cherry-Blossom
Clinic (1961), Spiced with Cloves
(1963), The Rhythm of Flamenco
(1966), A Garland of Marigolds (1967),
The Beads of Nemesis (1974), A Time to Wed (1984), and Bridge of Sighs (1992).
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HURST, SYBIL (dates unknown)
1920s – 1930s
Untraced author of seven romances, including She Wanted to Shine (1927), A Sorry Start (1928), The Pretender (1928), The Daughter-in-Law (1928), Her Enemy (1930), A Girl of Grit (1934), and Out
for Luxury (1935).
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HURT, FREDA
M[ARY ELIZABETH]. (14 Jun 1911 – 1 Jan 1999)
1950s – 1970s
Author of more than 30
volumes of children's fiction and 16 mysteries. Her children's books include
two school stories, The Wonderful
Birthday (1953) and Fun Next Door
(1954). Others include her Mr. Twink series (1953-1962), her Andy series
(1953-1965), and standalone titles like The
Exciting Summer (1956), Intruders
at Pinetops (1958), The Caravan Cat
(1963), and Benny and the Dolphin
(1968). Her mysteries, most or all of which feature series character
Inspector Herbert Broom, are The Body
at Busman's Hollow (1959), Death by
Bequest (1960), Sweet Death
(1961), Acquainted with Murder
(1962), Death and the Bridegroom
(1963), Cold and Unhonoured (1964),
A Cause for Malice (1966), Death and the Dark Daughter (1966), So Dark a Shadow (1967), Seven Year Secret (1968), Death in the Mist (1969), Dangerous Visit (1971), Dark Design (1972), Return to Terror (1974), and Fatal Fortune (1975).
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HUTCHINSON, VERE [STUART-MENTETH] (1891 – 7 Aug
1932)
1920s
Sister of novelist A. S. M. Hutchinson, and author
of four novels—Sea Wrack (1922), The Naked Man (1925), Great Waters (1926), and The Dark Freight (1928)—and one story
collection, The Other Gate and Other
Stories (1928).
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HUXLEY,
ELSPETH [JOSCELINE] (23 Jul 1907 – 10 Jan 1997)
(née Grant)
1930s – 1980s
Journalist, travel writer, biographer, and author of
fifteen volumes of fiction. She is best known for her autobiographical novel,
The
Flame Trees of Thika
(1959), about her childhood in Kenya, and its sequels, The Mottled Lizard (1962) and Love
Among the Daughters (1968). Early in her career, she published three
mystery novels, also set in Africa—Murder
on Safari (1938), Murder at
Government House (1939), and Death
of an Aryan (1939, aka The African
Poison Murders). These were described by the St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers as "[a] cross
between P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh." She later returned to the
genre with The Merry Hippo (1963,
aka The Incident at the Merry Hippo).
Her other novels are Red Strangers
(1939), The Walled City (1948), I Don’t Mind If I Do (1951), A Thing to Love (1954), The Red Rock Wilderness (1957), A Man from Nowhere (1964), The Prince Buys the Manor: An Extravaganza
(1982), and Last Days in Eden
(1984). During World War II, she published Atlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary Cornish (1941), about the 1940
sinking of the City of Benares with
90 child evacuees on board. Among her numerous works of non-fiction and
African travel writing, Out in the
Midday Sun: My Kenya (1985) contains the non-fiction stories of early
European settlers in Kenya.
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Huxley, Helen
see FOLEY, HELEN
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HUXTABLE,
MARJORIE (1897 – 2 Jan 1955)
(née Evans, later married
name Fedden, aka Simon Dare, aka Marjorie Stewart)
1920s – 1950s
Prolific author of nearly 100 romantic novels under
her two pseudonyms, including The
Little Upstart (1927), As a Peat
Fire Burns (1928), The Splash of a
Wave (1930), Handful of Stars
(1932), Blind Madonna (1933), April Whirlwind (1934), Cocktail Bar (1936), Mask Concealing (1938), Hunt the Horizon (1940), Cometh the Whirlwind (1943), Crocus Under Foot (1945), Buttered Toast (1946), No Goose So Grey (1949), Monk's Island (1953), and Spray on the Wind (1956). She also published
at least two children's books, including The
Witch of the Green Glass Mountain (1939) and Riding School (1945), about riding stables during wartime.
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Hyde, Eleanor
see COWEN, FRANCES [GERTRUDE]
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HYDE,
ELIZABETH (dates unknown)
1950s
Untraced author of two
girls' school stories, Valerie of Gaunt
Crag (1956) and Babette of Bayfern
Manor (1957). Sims & Clare note she is credited as "Frances
Newton" in one listing, which could be a publisher's slip revealing the
author's real name.
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ILES,
MARGARET (?29 Jun 1903 - ?1998)
(uncertain identification)
1930s – 1940s
Author of five novels—Season Ticket (1934), Elder Daughter (1936), Perry’s Cows (1937), Burden of Tyre (1939), and Nobody’s Darlings (1942). The last is
about wartime evacuees in a rural village.
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INCE, GERTRUDE (dates unknown)
1920s – 1930s
Untraced author of three romantic tales, The Silent Lover (1929), The Break in Her Love Line (1930), and
A Girl Unknown (1931).
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INCE, MABEL
[EMILY] (25 Feb 1870 - 1941)
1900s – 1910s, 1930s
Illustrator, children's writer,
and author of at least four novels—The
Wisdom of Waiting (1912), The
Commonplace & Clementine (1914), The
Preacher (1935) and Man's Estate
(1937). The latter two, at least, seem to have received some critical
acclaim. She published two children's books, Our Ups and Downs (1905) and The
Darrydingle Dragon (1907).
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INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (1858 – 21 Jan 1939)
(née Ada Alice Cunnick, aka Mrs. Stanley Inchbold)
1890s - 1920
Wife of artist Stanley Inchbold and author of nine
novels, as well as two travel books about the Middle East and Portugal.
Titles include Princess Feather
(1899), The Silver Dove (1900), The Letter Killeth: A Romance of the
Sussex Downs (1905), Phantasma
(1906), Love in a Thirsty Land
(1914), Love and the Crescent
(1918), and Sallie of Painter's Bakery
(1920).
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INCHFAWN,
FAY (2 Dec 1880 – 16 Apr 1978)
(pseudonym of Elizabeth
Rebecca Ward, née Daniels)
1920s – 1940s
Poet, memoirist, and novelist whose light verse and
sketches about village life were highly successful, beginning with The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman
(1920). Her sketches and memoirs include Journal
of a Tent-Dweller (1931), Living in
a Village (1937), As I Lay Thinking
(1950), Something More to Say
(1965), and Not the Final Word
(1969). Salute to the Village
(1943), which I reviewed here, is about wartime in Freshford, Somerset, where
Inchfawn lived. Those Remembered Days
(1963) is more of a formal memoir that covers the same period. Inchfawn also
wrote three novels—Sweet Water and
Bitter (1927), which, considerably darker than most of her work, deals
with an unmarried girl who bears a child as the result of a rape, The Life Book of Mary Watt (1935), and
Barrow Down Folk (1948). Mary: A Tale for the Mother-Hearted
(1926) appears to be a short work of fiction.
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Inglis, John
see CLIFFORD, LUCY JANE
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INGLIS, SUSAN (1898 – 22 Apr 1970)
(pseudonym of Doris Nicol Paske Mackie)
1930s – 1960s
Author of more than 20 romantic novels, including Married Man's Girl (1934), Uncertain Flame (1937), Too Many Men (1939), Sara Steps In (1947), Jill Takes a Chance (1949), Highland Holiday (1952), The Loving Heart (1954), and The Old Hunting Lodge (1961).
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INGLIS-JONES, ELISABETH [WINIFRED] (4 Jan 1900 – 18
Sept 1994)
1920s – 1940s
Author of six novels, most set in Caredigion (then
called Cardiganshire) in Wales and some at least sounding distinctly
Brontëesque. Starved Fields (1929)
was controversial for its portrayals of drunkenness, adultery, and
illegitimate children in the 1890s. Crumbling
Pageant (1932), which was reprinted by Honno Press in 2015, is about a
young woman's obsession with a decaying mansion. Pay thy Pleasure (1939) is, according to Saturday Review, about "Esther Girling, a passionate woman
who has been denied all passion by the fact of her physical ugliness, and Lew
Gower, a man of much spirit and few scruples, who finds it useful to play the
ardent lover. These are two elements of heat and cold mismated; they flare up
briefly in a compound as violent as it is foredoomed." Her other novels
are The Loving Heart (1942), Lightly He Journeyed (1946), and Aunt Albinia (1948). She later
published the non-fiction Peacocks in
Paradise (1950), about Hafod Uchtryd, a historic estate in Caredigion,
and several biographies.
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Ingram, Grace
see ADAMS, DORIS SUTCLIFFE
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Iota
see KATHLEEN MANNINGTON CAFFYN
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IRBY,
CHRISTIAN (dates unknown)
1930s
Untraced author of three
novels—Cardinal Molina: The Story of a
Matador (1938), Marcus Revell
(1938), and Rainbow of Glory
(1940). Researcher John Herrington narrowed her identity down to a mother and
daughter who share the name—Louisa Christian Irby, née Fellowes (1874 – 20
Jan 1942) and Christian Geraldine Mary Irby (1913 – 1967)—but we've been
unable to determine which is the novelist.
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Ireland, Doreen
see LORD, DOREEN MILDRED DOUGLAS
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Ireland, Noelle
see BRADLEY, NORAH MARY
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IREMONGER,
LUCILLE [D'OYEN] (3 Jun 1915 – 7 Jan 1989)
(née Parks)
1950s, 1970s – 1980s
Novelist, travel writer,
and biographer born in Jamaica. Her novels are Creole (1950), The
Cannibals (1952), about an amnesiac girl in Fiji, How Do I Love Thee (1976), a fictionalized biography of Robert
and Elizabeth Browning, and My Sister, My Love (1981), about Lord Byron's
love affair with his half sister. She also wrote several biographical works,
including The Ghosts of Versailles
(1957), an examination of Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain's adventures at Versailles.
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IRONS,
GENEVIÈVE [MARY] (c1856 – 13 Dec 1928)
1900s – 1910s
Author of five novels with Catholic themes—A Maiden up to Date (1908), The Making of Molly (1908), The Damsel Who Dared (1909), The Mystery of the Priest's Parlour
(1911), and In the Service of the King
(1912). She also published two books for children, Only a Doll and Other Sunday Afternoon Stories for Catholic Children
(1904) and A Torn Scrap Book: Talks and
Tales, Illustrative of the "Our Father" (1908).
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IRONSIDE,
JOHN (1866 - 1945)
(pseudonym of Euphemia
Margaret Tait)
1910s – 1940s
Author of
nine novels, most of them mysteries. Titles are The Red Symbol (1911), Forged
in Strong Fires (1912), The
Call-Box Mystery (1923, aka The Phone
Booth Mystery), Chris: A Love Story
(1926), Jack of Clubs (1931), The Marten Mystery (1933), Blackmail (1938), Lady Pamela's Pearls (1941), and The Crime and the Casket (1945). Her one title published under
her own name was Every Day: A Book of
Comfort and Counsel Compiled from the Scriptures (1933).
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IRONSIDE,
MARGARET HUNTER (25 Apr 1884 – 26 Sept 1970)
1920s – 1930s
Author of six girls'
school stories—The Girls of St.
Augustine's (1920), The Mysterious
Something (1925), The Black Sheep
of St. Michael's (1928), Young
Diana (1931), The Tale-Tellers'
Club (1932), and Jane Emerges
(1937).
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IRVINE,
A[MY]. (AMELIA) M[ARY]. (13 Apr 1866 – 20 Nov 1950)
1900s – 1930s
Author of at least 18
volumes of fiction, including novels for adults and school stories for both
girls and boys. She seems to have written four novels—The Specialist (1904), Roger
Dinwiddie, Soul Doctor (1907), The
Probationer (1910), and The Dreams
of Orlow (1916)—some of these reflecting an interest in the occult. Sims
& Clare praise her girls' school stories, which include Cliff House (1908), A Girl of the Fourth (1910), The Worst Girl in the School (1912), Nora, the Girl Guide (1913), Naida the Tenderfoot (1919), The Girl Who Was Expelled (1920), The Girl Who Ran Away (1921), The School Enemy (1925), A School Conspiracy (1926), Adventurous Jean (1934), Quiet Margaret (1935). Her other
titles are The Two J. G.'s (1930)
and Scouts to the Rescue (1932),
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IRWIN,
MARGARET [EMMA FAITH] (1889 – 11 Dec 1967)
(married name Monsell)
1910s – 1950s
Author of 20 volumes of
fiction, best known today for her historical trilogy about Elizabeth I—Young Bess (1944), Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948),
and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
(1953)—and for three early works of fantasy and time travel, including the
novels Still She Wished for Company
(1924) and These Mortals (1925) and
the story collection Madame Fears the
Dark (1935). Her other fiction is How
Many Miles to Babylon? (1913), Come
Out to Play (1914), Out of the
House (1916), Who Will Remember?
(1924), Knock Four Times (1927), Fire Down Below (1928), None So Pretty (1930), Royal Flush: The Story of Minette
(1932), The Proud Servant: The Story of
Montrose (1934), The Stranger
Prince: The Story of Rupert of the Rhine (1937), The Bride: The Story of Louise and Montrose (1939), Mrs. Oliver Cromwell and Other Stories
(1940), The Gay Galliard: The Love
Story of Mary Queen of Scots (1941), and Bloodstock and Other Stories (1953). She published one biography,
The Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir
Walter Raleigh (1936), and one other very short work, South Molton Street (1927), which is
listed in catalogues as non-fiction but about which details are lacking.
Perhaps it has to do with William Blake, who lived on that street?
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Averil Ives
see IDA [JULIE] POLLOCK
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