John Oliver Hobbes
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Writing for a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, the pseudonymous India, and letters published after her death. Having made her mark as the author of epigrammatic works during the fin de siècle (a label she never really shook), she inquired in her later works into the place of religion in contemporary life, as well as retaining an interest, often satirical, in London society life. She is seen as an important
novelist.
(whose actual married name was
) was the author of over a dozen novellas, novels, and several plays, as well as essays on art and colonial