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Primarily a children's author Edith Ellen Cuthell (nee Foster) also wrote two-volume biographies of Marie Louise, the wife of Napoleon and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia. Edith was born on July 27, 1852 in Biggleswade to John Nathaniel Foster (occupation: merchant, later Justice of the Peace) and Frances Mary Foster. She married Lt Col. Thomas George Cuthell of the 38th Foot and later 13th Hussars. Edith followed her husband to India. It is here where she comes into her own and writes the autobiographical work  My Garden in the City of Gardens while living near Kashmir. It was here she was struck down with Dengue fever and was reduced to a near-cripple and her recovery was slow and painful. A collection of short stories called Indian Idylls was published in Calcutta in 1890 by Thacker, Spink & Co and contained the genre story 'In a Haunted Grove'. This was followed two years later by another collection, In Tent and Bungalow which contained 'The Face in the F...

Eveline Forbes (Source: Bystander 1904) Eveline Louisa Michell Farwell, also known as Mrs Walter Forbes (1866 - 1924) was the author of Fingers and Fortune: A Guide Book to Palmistry and several novels including Her Last Run (1888) and  Blight (1897) - a story of a 'scheming woman' who causes much misery to all those around her in her quest for a title, and ended up having to 'take the veil' because that was the only way she would ever find redemption. Eveline was the only daughter of Frederick Farwell and Louisa Whitbread Michell, born and lived at  'Lowlands' on 93 Lower Street, Tettenhall and was home schooled by a governess. In 1871 she moved to Paignton, Devon with both parents, her mother Louisa was originally from Lostwithiel, Cornwall and they would visit relatives there frequently. Her marriage to the Hon. Walter Robert Drummond Forbes of the Gordon Highlanders was listed in newspapers as a 'fashionable' marriage and took place o...

Ethel F. Heddle - portrait by 'F.H.T.' (1899) Ethel Forster Heddle (married name Marshall) (? - 1942) was, in her day, a popular author of 'school girl' novels and prolific contributor to the People's Friend and Young Woman newspaper, where her article, 'A Friendly Chat With the Girls' ran for several years and covered important topics such as women's place in war Ethel in 1923 (source:  The Citizen ) She was the widow of Mr William Marshall B.Sc. and the second daughter of Professor Heddle. Living most of her life in St Andrews, Scotland, she spent some time in Java when she was first married and one of her novels, Strangers in the Land was set there. Her novel, A Haunted Town was set in St Andrews, indeed you can see the skyline on the cover, but she renamed St Rule. She died and was buried in St Andrews and was survived by her son, Lieut. Colonel J.F.C. Marshall, MC who at the time of her death was serving in India and h...