Elinor Mordaunt

01 January 1873 - 25 June 1942

Beginning in the very early twentieth century, EM wrote and published more than fifty books, most of them popular novels but also including remarkable travel books as well as short stories, books for children, and an autobiography.

BirthName: Evelyn May Clowes
Married: Wiehe; Bowles
Pseudonyms: Elinor Mordaunt; John Heron; A. Riposte
Indexed: Eleanor Mordaunt
Though she used Elinor on her title-pages and in one title, the British Library Catalogue lists her as Eleanor.

Milestones

1872 or 1873

Evelyn May Clowes (who later wrote under the name EM ) was born at Cotgrave Place, Cotgrave, just to the east of Nottingham: one of eight children, six of them boys.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By 17 September 1931

EM 's novel Full Circle, about the morally and spiritually empty life of a lionized author appeared with this title in England but in the USA as Gin and Bitters by A. Riposte.

TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.

1546 (17 September 1931): 702

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

25 June 1942

EM died in the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford.

“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

174

By September 1943

EM 's adventure book for boys entitled To Sea! To Sea! appeared posthumously in the year after her death.

British Book News. British Council.

(1943): 723

Biography

Birth and Family

1872 or 1873

Evelyn May Clowes (who later wrote under the name EM ) was born at Cotgrave Place, Cotgrave, just to the east of Nottingham: one of eight children, six of them boys.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.