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 Fountain' - however, the ending of this tale is almost exactly the same as 'Grove' - they both feature a skeleton and an engraved ring.
By the time she died in 1929 she had written the manual Nursing in Indian Military Hospitals (1886) and further novels titled: By a Himalayan Lake, Two Little Children and Ching, Caught by a Cook, The Big Captain Fellow, Only a Guardroom Dog and A Baireuth Pilgrimage which is a travel/romance novel that features the composer Wagner.
Genre and other short stories of note:
'A Horrible Honeymoon' - Perth Western Mail (24 April, 1896)
'In a Haunted Grove' - Indian Idylls (1890)
'The Face in the Fountain' - In Tent and Bungalow (1892)
'Playing the Ghost' - Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (December 1899)
'Tetee the Thief' - The Quiver (April, 1900)
'The Fairy Gold' - The Star Tribune (31 January, 1904)
'Henrietta' - The Star Tribune (28 February, 1904)
'The Big Captain Fellow' - Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser (26 August, 1904)
'The Mystery of the Black Cat' - The W.A. Record (10 June, 1905)
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 Fountain' - however, the ending of this tale is almost exactly the same as 'Grove' - they both feature a skeleton and an engraved ring.
By the time she died in 1929 she had written the manual Nursing in Indian Military Hospitals (1886) and further novels titled: By a Himalayan Lake, Two Little Children and Ching, Caught by a Cook, The Big Captain Fellow, Only a Guardroom Dog and A Baireuth Pilgrimage which is a travel/romance novel that features the composer Wagner.
Genre and other short stories of note:
'A Horrible Honeymoon' - Perth Western Mail (24 April, 1896)
'In a Haunted Grove' - Indian Idylls (1890)
'The Face in the Fountain' - In Tent and Bungalow (1892)
'Playing the Ghost' - Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (December 1899)
'Tetee the Thief' - The Quiver (April, 1900)
'The Fairy Gold' - The Star Tribune (31 January, 1904)
'Henrietta' - The Star Tribune (28 February, 1904)
'The Big Captain Fellow' - Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser (26 August, 1904)
'The Mystery of the Black Cat' - The W.A. Record (10 June, 1905)
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