Mathers, Helen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author Ellen Buckingham Mathews Reeves (1850-1920), who gained her greatest success with her first novel, Comin' thro the Rye (1875 3vols) as by H B M, but who remained prolific for many years; of sf interest are The Juggler and the Soul (1896) and The Sin of Hagar (1896), both melodramas involving Hypnosis, experiments in Medicine, and reanimation of the dead. [JC]
Ellen Buckingham Mathews Reeves
born Misterton, near Crewkerne, Somerset: February or March 1850 [baptized March]
died London: 10 March 1920
works (highly selected)
- The Juggler and the Soul (London: Skeffington and Son, 1896) [hb/]
- The Sin of Hagar (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1896) [hb/]
- The Face in the Mirror and Other Stories (London: Digby, Long and Co, 1903) [coll: hb/]
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