Clotilde Graves, who published from the late nineteenth through the first decades of the twentieth century, wrote short stories, an estimated sixteen plays, and novels. Among her fiction, some of the earlier titles concern themselves with women's issues. Under the masculine pseudonym 'Richard Dehan' she then produced a series of popular historical novels which feature exotic Empire settings, men of action, and extreme emotional situations. Though a website claims she is "best known for her 'humorous novels and stories of witchcraft and pagan religions,'"
her contemporary fame came from her exotic adventure novels.
Milestones
1932 In the year of CG's death appeared her latest 'Richard Dehan' book,
Dead Pearls, A Novel of the Great Wide West, a sequel to
The Sower of the Wind.
5 December 1932 CG died in the Convent of Lourdes at
Hatch End in
Middlesex, to which she had retired after the failure of her health.
