Amabel Williams-Ellis

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Standard Name: Williams-Ellis, Amabel
Birth Name: Mary Annabel Nassau Strachey
Self-constructed Name: Amabel
Married Name: Mary Annabel Nassau Williams-Ellis
Titled: Mary Annabel Nassau, Lady Williams-Ellis
Across her long career, AWE worked as an author, editor, compiler, and translator. She wrote periodical articles, novels, and books of information on politics, culture, women's lives, and science: both historical and contemporary, for both children and adults. She is now best known for editing multitudinous volumes of fairy tales, folk legends, and science fiction.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB was a great-niece of the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant (later Smith) . The writers Julia Strachey and Amabel Williams-Ellis , and painter Duncan Grant , all belonged to the same extended family.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin.
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Dedications Storm Jameson
She interrupted her work on The Mirror in Darkness in order to write more intensively on the pressing issue of fascism. The others in the new series are With Europe to Let, Cloudless May...

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Texts

Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Wall of Glass. J. Cape, 1927.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. To Tell the Truth. J. Cape, 1933.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Volcano. J. Cape, 1931.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. What Shall I Be?. Heinemann, 1932.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Why Should I Vote?. G. Howe, 1929.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Women in War Factories. V. Gollancz, 1943.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Wonder Why Book of Your Body. Transworld, 1978.