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
politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club , and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...
Travel Sylvia Townsend Warner
Ackland's health was an increasing problem. In 1966 and, again, in 1967, the two women went on their final sea-air-and-salt-water holidays to Scotland; in March 1968 Ackland was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
238-41
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Editor Harman, Claire, Chatto and Windus.
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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.