Amber Reeves

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AR , who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world). Her fourth and last novel, which is highly satirical, deals with the political, or rather the bureaucratic, world of men. After that she shifted into non-fiction, publishing monographs on banking, politics, psychology, and non-religious philosophy. She was also the author of periodical articles, and probably an unacknowledged collaborator with H. G. Wells on another book, in the same areas.

Milestones

1 July 1887

AR was born in Christchurch, New Zealand (not in London, as most sources say), the eldest child in a family of three (a brother born before her had lived only a few hours).
On the subject of her birthplace, Sally Alexander 's article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which lists private information among its bases, contradicts such sources as Who's Who in the year of AR 's death and the website of the British Library of Political and Economic Science .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Magdalen Stuart Reeves

1948

AR published Ethics for Unbelievers, her final book, and one in which she felt she had summed up her thinking.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Boxing Day 1981

AR died at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, St John's Wood, London; she was ninety-four.

Biography

Birth and Family

1 July 1887

AR was born in Christchurch, New Zealand (not in London, as most sources say), the eldest child in a family of three (a brother born before her had lived only a few hours).
On the subject of her birthplace, Sally Alexander 's article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which lists private information among its bases, contradicts such sources as Who's Who in the year of AR 's death and the website of the British Library of Political and Economic Science .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Magdalen Stuart Reeves

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