Amabel Williams-Ellis

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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.
  • BirthName: Mary Annabel Nassau Strachey
  • Self-constructed: Amabel
    Christened Annabel, she later preferred to call herself Amabel.
  • Married: Williams-Ellis
  • Titled: Lady
    AWE acquired the title of Lady Williams-Ellis when her husband was made a knight in 1971.

Milestones

10 May 1894

Mary Annabel Nassau (Amabel) Strachey, later AWE , was born at Newlands Corner near Guildford in Surrey, the middle child of three.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
105

From 1911

Amabel Strachey , later AWE , wrote regularly for The Spectator, then owned by her father, John St Loe Strachey . Other relatives, such as Lytton Strachey , also contributed, and she was the journal's literary editor for 1922-3.
Sanders, Charles Richard. The Strachey Family, 1588-1932. Greenwood, 1968.
316-21
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
105

1983

AWE published her memoir, All Stracheys Are Cousins, about one year before her death.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

27 August 1984

AWE died in her ninetieth year.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
105, 114

1987

AWE 's The Enchanted World, adaptations of fairy tales from other cultures with illustrations by Moira Kemp , was published three years after the author's death.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Biography

Birth and Background

10 May 1894

Mary Annabel Nassau (Amabel) Strachey, later AWE , was born at Newlands Corner near Guildford in Surrey, the middle child of three.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
105

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