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Pseudonym of Irish-born journalist, cartoonist, playwright, actor and author Clotilde Augusta Inez Maria Graves (1863-1932), in UK from around 1870; active from about 1884, her first plays being written later in that decade, as Clotilde Graves. Beginning with The Dop Doctor (1910), she wrote as by Richard Dehan; reprints of her work, including some titles originally published as Graves, continue to use the pseudonym. Of sf interest in Off Sandy Hook and Other Stories (coll 1915) is "Lady Clanbevon's Baby", in which a mysterious Ray, invented by a Mad Scientist fatally in love with the Lady, grants Immortality; and in Under the Hermés and Other Stories (coll 1917), of interest is "The Great Beast of Kafui", set in Africa, where the last brontosaurus (see Dinosaurs) is discovered but not shot. [JC]
born Buttevant Castle, County Cork, Ireland: 3 June 1863
died Hatch End, Middlesex: 3 December 1932
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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