Clotilde Graves

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CG , 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,
qtd. in
“The Edgar Rice Burroughs Library: Shelf D2”. ERBzine: Research.
her contemporary fame came from her exotic adventure novels.
  • BirthName: Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
    The Feminist Companion spells her first name Clothilde; but most sources spell it Clotilda.

  • Pseudonyms: Clo. Graves
    CG 's early published writings bear her name in this abbreviated form.
    ; Richard Dehan

Milestones

3 June 1863

CG was born at the army barracks at Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland; she was the third daughter in the family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Feminist Companion Archive.

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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Biography

Birth and Background

3 June 1863

CG was born at the army barracks at Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland; she was the third daughter in the family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Feminist Companion Archive.