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    Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937
    The Villa and The Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924
    Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940
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    Handheld Weirds Series

    By Elinor Mordaunt, D.K. Broster, Helen Simpson and

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    Handheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings.

    Authors include:

    Sabine Baring-Gould, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, August Derleth, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton.

    Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHandheld Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2005
    Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937
    The Villa and The Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924
    Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940

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      Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940
      Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940

      Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940

      Melissa Edmundson
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      4/5 - 2 ratings

      For fans of H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley, female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century embrace the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the Gothic in Women’s Weird. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Women’s Weird features the best classic Weird short stories that showcase how these authors moved beyond the traditional ghost story and into areas of Weird fiction and dark fantasy. A haunted house, some very haunted gloves, a love that will never die—these are examples of the classic gothic settings reimagined by these turn of the century authors. Authors include Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Giant Wistaria), Edith Nesbit (The Shadow), Edith Wharton (Kerfol), May Sinclair (Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched), Mary Butts (With and Without Buttons), and D K Broster (Crouching At The Door). Featuring stories that explore beyond the primarily domestic concerns of earlier supernatural fiction, Women’s Weird is sure to thrill new readers and delight these authors’ fans.

      For fans of H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley, female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century embrace the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the Gothic in Women’s Weird. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Women’s Weird features the best classic Weird short stories that showcase how these authors moved beyond the traditional ghost story and into areas of Weird fiction and dark fantasy. A haunted house, some very haunted gloves, a love that will never die—these are examples of the classic gothic settings reimagined by these turn of the century authors. Authors include Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Giant Wistaria), Edith Nesbit (The Shadow), Edith Wharton (Kerfol), May Sinclair (Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched), Mary Butts (With and Without Buttons), and D K Broster (Crouching At The Door). Featuring stories that explore beyond the primarily domestic concerns of earlier supernatural fiction, Women’s Weird is sure to thrill new readers and delight these authors’ fans.

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      Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937
      Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937

      Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937

      Melissa Edmundson
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      For fans of the best-selling Women’s Weird anthology comes the next installment of stories by female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Women’s Weird 2 features thirteen classic Weird short stories that showcase how these authors moved beyond the traditional ghost story and into areas of Weird fiction and dark fantasy. A detective, a young woman caught in a rainstorm, an author acquiring witchcraft skills—these are examples of how women continued to push and defy the genre expectations of the era. Authors include Edith Stewart Drewry (“A Twin Identity”), Katherine Mansfield (“The House”), Lettice Galbraith (“The Blue Room”), Sarah Orne Jewett (“The Green Bowl”), Barbara Baynton (“A Dreamer”), Mary Wilkins Freeman (“The Hall Bedroom”)… and more! Featuring thirteen remarkably chilling stories, Women’s Weird 2 is sure to thrill new readers and delight these authors’ fans.

      For fans of the best-selling Women’s Weird anthology comes the next installment of stories by female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Women’s Weird 2 features thirteen classic Weird short stories that showcase how these authors moved beyond the traditional ghost story and into areas of Weird fiction and dark fantasy. A detective, a young woman caught in a rainstorm, an author acquiring witchcraft skills—these are examples of how women continued to push and defy the genre expectations of the era. Authors include Edith Stewart Drewry (“A Twin Identity”), Katherine Mansfield (“The House”), Lettice Galbraith (“The Blue Room”), Sarah Orne Jewett (“The Green Bowl”), Barbara Baynton (“A Dreamer”), Mary Wilkins Freeman (“The Hall Bedroom”)… and more! Featuring thirteen remarkably chilling stories, Women’s Weird 2 is sure to thrill new readers and delight these authors’ fans.

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      The Villa and The Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924
      The Villa and The Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924

      The Villa and The Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924

      Elinor Mordaunt
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      Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird and Women’s Weird 2, has curated this selection of the best of Elinor Mordaunt’s supernatural short fiction. Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.  Edmundson's stories blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to supernatural fiction, making this selection a marvelous new showcase for women’s writing in the genres.  The Villa and The Vortex includes the following short stories: The Weakening Point The Country-side The Vortex Hodge The Fountain Luz  The Landlady Four Wallpapers The Villa  "The Villa and the Vortex is a must-read for those who find themselves drawn to older weird fiction, and for those with a fondness for older supernatural and ghost stories." – What Sleeps Beneath  "An attractive, enjoyable collection of supernatural tales, including some real gems." – British Fantasy Society

      Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird and Women’s Weird 2, has curated this selection of the best of Elinor Mordaunt’s supernatural short fiction. Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.  Edmundson's stories blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to supernatural fiction, making this selection a marvelous new showcase for women’s writing in the genres.  The Villa and The Vortex includes the following short stories: The Weakening Point The Country-side The Vortex Hodge The Fountain Luz  The Landlady Four Wallpapers The Villa  "The Villa and the Vortex is a must-read for those who find themselves drawn to older weird fiction, and for those with a fondness for older supernatural and ghost stories." – What Sleeps Beneath  "An attractive, enjoyable collection of supernatural tales, including some real gems." – British Fantasy Society

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      British Weird
      British Weird

      British Weird

      James Machin
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      For fans of the best-selling Women’s Weird anthology comes British Weird, a new installment of stories by British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Curated by James Machin, the author of Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880 – 1939, who details the background of these stories in the Weird tradition, identifying their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction. Immense church effigies walk at night, man find a prehistoric tribe in the Scottish Highlands, canoeing on a haunted river—these are some examples of Weird stories that are uniquely British in style and content. Authors include:  E.F. Benson (“Caterpillars”) Algernon Blackwood (“The Willows”) John Buchan (“No-Man’s Land”) Mary Butts “Mappa Mundi”) L.A. Lewis (“Lost Keep”) Arthur Machen (“N”) John Metcalfe (“The Bad Lands”) Edith Nesbit (“Man-Size in a Marble”) Eleanor Scott (“Randalls Round”) This collection is certain to thrill, entertain, and chill any fan of classic Weird fiction.

      For fans of the best-selling Women’s Weird anthology comes British Weird, a new installment of stories by British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Curated by James Machin, the author of Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880 – 1939, who details the background of these stories in the Weird tradition, identifying their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction. Immense church effigies walk at night, man find a prehistoric tribe in the Scottish Highlands, canoeing on a haunted river—these are some examples of Weird stories that are uniquely British in style and content. Authors include:  E.F. Benson (“Caterpillars”) Algernon Blackwood (“The Willows”) John Buchan (“No-Man’s Land”) Mary Butts “Mappa Mundi”) L.A. Lewis (“Lost Keep”) Arthur Machen (“N”) John Metcalfe (“The Bad Lands”) Edith Nesbit (“Man-Size in a Marble”) Eleanor Scott (“Randalls Round”) This collection is certain to thrill, entertain, and chill any fan of classic Weird fiction.

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      From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1940
      From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1940

      From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1940

      D.K. Broster
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      D K Broster’s Weird fiction has long been forgotten, but she wrote some of the most impressive British supernatural short stories published between the wars. Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird, Women’s Weird 2, and Helen Simpson’s The Outcast and The Rite, all published by Handheld, has curated a selection of Broster’s best and most terrifying work. From the Abyss contains twelve stories, including: ‘The Window’, in which a soldier wanders into a deserted chateau, which does not approve. ‘The Pavement’, in which the protectress of a Roman mosaic cannot bear to let her burden go. ‘The Taste of Pomegranates’ draws two women into the very, very far-off past. ‘From the Abyss’, in which two lost women may be the same person. ‘Clairvoyance’, in which the ornamental weaponry in Strode Manor is more than merely decoration.

      D K Broster’s Weird fiction has long been forgotten, but she wrote some of the most impressive British supernatural short stories published between the wars. Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird, Women’s Weird 2, and Helen Simpson’s The Outcast and The Rite, all published by Handheld, has curated a selection of Broster’s best and most terrifying work. From the Abyss contains twelve stories, including: ‘The Window’, in which a soldier wanders into a deserted chateau, which does not approve. ‘The Pavement’, in which the protectress of a Roman mosaic cannot bear to let her burden go. ‘The Taste of Pomegranates’ draws two women into the very, very far-off past. ‘From the Abyss’, in which two lost women may be the same person. ‘Clairvoyance’, in which the ornamental weaponry in Strode Manor is more than merely decoration.

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      The Outcast and The Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38
      The Outcast and The Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38

      The Outcast and The Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38

      Helen Simpson
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      The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (1925). Featured stories include: • ‘An Experiment of the Dead’, in which a visitor comes to visit a woman in the condemned cell. • ‘Good Company’, in which a traveller in Italy becomes temporarily possessed of a hitchhiker in her mind. • ‘Grey Sand and White Sand’ is the horrifying story of a landscape artist who sees and paints a different view. • ‘The Outcast’, in which a soldier left for dead in the War takes his revenge on his village. • ‘The Rite’, in which a discontented woman enters a wood, and emerges transformed. Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied at Oxford. Her novel Boomerang won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1932. She died from cancer in 1940. Her close friend, the novelist Margaret Kennedy, took charge of Simpson’s daughter Clemence during the war while Simpson was in her last illness. Clemence and Simpson both feature in Kennedy’s wartime memoir, Where Stands A Winged Sentry, also published by Handheld Press. The Introduction is by Melissa Edmundson, the leading scholar of women’s Weird fiction and supernatural writing from the early 20th century.

      The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (1925). Featured stories include: • ‘An Experiment of the Dead’, in which a visitor comes to visit a woman in the condemned cell. • ‘Good Company’, in which a traveller in Italy becomes temporarily possessed of a hitchhiker in her mind. • ‘Grey Sand and White Sand’ is the horrifying story of a landscape artist who sees and paints a different view. • ‘The Outcast’, in which a soldier left for dead in the War takes his revenge on his village. • ‘The Rite’, in which a discontented woman enters a wood, and emerges transformed. Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied at Oxford. Her novel Boomerang won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1932. She died from cancer in 1940. Her close friend, the novelist Margaret Kennedy, took charge of Simpson’s daughter Clemence during the war while Simpson was in her last illness. Clemence and Simpson both feature in Kennedy’s wartime memoir, Where Stands A Winged Sentry, also published by Handheld Press. The Introduction is by Melissa Edmundson, the leading scholar of women’s Weird fiction and supernatural writing from the early 20th century.

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      Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1956
      Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1956

      Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1956

      Amara Thornton
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      Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeology. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible. Stories include: ‘The Ape’, by E F Benson; ‘Roman Remains’, by Algernon Blackwood; ‘Ho! The Merry Masons’, by John Buchan; ‘Through the Veil’, by Arthur Conan Doyle; ‘View From A Hill’, by M R James; ‘Curse of the Stillborn’, by Margery Lawrence; ‘Whitewash’, by Rose Macaulay; ‘The Shining Pyramid’, by Arthur Machen; ‘Cracks of Time’, by Dorothy Quick; ‘The Cure’, by Eleanor Scott.

      Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeology. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible. Stories include: ‘The Ape’, by E F Benson; ‘Roman Remains’, by Algernon Blackwood; ‘Ho! The Merry Masons’, by John Buchan; ‘Through the Veil’, by Arthur Conan Doyle; ‘View From A Hill’, by M R James; ‘Curse of the Stillborn’, by Margery Lawrence; ‘Whitewash’, by Rose Macaulay; ‘The Shining Pyramid’, by Arthur Machen; ‘Cracks of Time’, by Dorothy Quick; ‘The Cure’, by Eleanor Scott.

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      The Unknown. Weird Writings, 1900-1937
      The Unknown. Weird Writings, 1900-1937

      The Unknown. Weird Writings, 1900-1937

      Algernon Blackwood
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      This new selection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author’s own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories.  Blackwood (1869-1951) is one of the great names in Weird writing, and one of the foremost British writers of horror, supernatural and ghost stories. His talent for expressing unknown fears come through strongly in these tales of the Canadian backwoods, Alpine mountaineering and desert loneliness. His deep interest in extending consciousness beyond human faculties produced short stories to lead the reader into wild and remote settings, to face nature at its most awe-inspiring and terrifying, and to sense, if only briefly, the immensity of the unknown forces beyond. Stories include: 'Skeleton Lake’, 'The Wolves of God’, 'The Glamour of the Snow’, 'The Sacrifice’, 'The Insanity of Jones’, 'The Tarn of Sacrifice’, 'By Water’ and 'Imagination’. Essays include: 'Mid the Haunts of the Moose’, 'The Winter Alps’, 'On Reincarnation’ and 'The Genesis of Ideas’. This selection of Blackwood’s writing has been curated with an Introduction by Henry Bartholomew, of the University of Plymouth.  This new selection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author’s own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories.  Blackwood (1869-1951) is one of the great names in Weird writing, and one of the foremost British writers of horror, supernatural and ghost stories. His talent for expressing unknown fears come through strongly in these tales of the Canadian backwoods, Alpine mountaineering and desert loneliness. His deep interest in extending consciousness beyond human faculties produced short stories to lead the reader into wild and remote settings, to face nature at its most awe-inspiring and terrifying, and to sense, if only briefly, the immensity of the unknown forces beyond.

      This new selection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author’s own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories.  Blackwood (1869-1951) is one of the great names in Weird writing, and one of the foremost British writers of horror, supernatural and ghost stories. His talent for expressing unknown fears come through strongly in these tales of the Canadian backwoods, Alpine mountaineering and desert loneliness. His deep interest in extending consciousness beyond human faculties produced short stories to lead the reader into wild and remote settings, to face nature at its most awe-inspiring and terrifying, and to sense, if only briefly, the immensity of the unknown forces beyond. Stories include: 'Skeleton Lake’, 'The Wolves of God’, 'The Glamour of the Snow’, 'The Sacrifice’, 'The Insanity of Jones’, 'The Tarn of Sacrifice’, 'By Water’ and 'Imagination’. Essays include: 'Mid the Haunts of the Moose’, 'The Winter Alps’, 'On Reincarnation’ and 'The Genesis of Ideas’. This selection of Blackwood’s writing has been curated with an Introduction by Henry Bartholomew, of the University of Plymouth.  This new selection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author’s own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories.  Blackwood (1869-1951) is one of the great names in Weird writing, and one of the foremost British writers of horror, supernatural and ghost stories. His talent for expressing unknown fears come through strongly in these tales of the Canadian backwoods, Alpine mountaineering and desert loneliness. His deep interest in extending consciousness beyond human faculties produced short stories to lead the reader into wild and remote settings, to face nature at its most awe-inspiring and terrifying, and to sense, if only briefly, the immensity of the unknown forces beyond.

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      The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1948
      The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1948

      The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1948

      Henry Bartholomew
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      Handheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings. Authors include: Sabine Baring-Gould, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, August Derleth, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton. Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.

      Handheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings. Authors include: Sabine Baring-Gould, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, August Derleth, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton. Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.

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    Elinor Mordaunt

    Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.

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