Crommelin, May
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Irish author Mary Henriette de la Cherois Crommelin (1849-1930), mostly in England from around 1885, active as a writer of romantic novels – many of them historicals – from 1874; she worked in at least three London hospitals during World War One. Of some sf interest is The Luck of a Lowland Laddie (1900), an adventure set in South America whose protagonists are chased for several chapters by a carnivorous tree. Despite its title, The Isle of the Dead (1911), set on an extremely isolated Alaskan Island and examining esoteric Native American customs, only approaches the fantastic. [JC]
Mary Henriette de la Cherois Crommelin
born Armaugh, Ireland: 30 August 1849
died 1930
works (highly selected)
- The Luck of a Lowland Laddie (London: John Long, 1900) [hb/uncredited]
- The Isle of the Dead (London: Hutchinson and Company, 1911) [hb/]
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