Harraden , Beatrice , 1864-1936 , writer

Born 1864; educated in Dresden, Germany, Cheltenham Ladies College, Gloucestershire, and Queen's College and Bedford College, London; travelled extensively on the continent and in the USA; member of London literary circles; actively interested in the women's' rights movement; received a civil list pension in recognition of her literary work, 1930; died 1936.

Publications: Two health-seekers in Southern California (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1897) with W A Edwards; preface to Nature rambles in London (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1908); A new book of the fairies (Griffith and Farran, London, [1891]); Concerning 'Ships that pass in the night' (S.S. McClure, London, [1894]); Hilda Stafford and the Remittance Man (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1897); In varying moods (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1894); Interplay (Methuen and Co, London, 1908); Katherine Frensham: a novel (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1903); Master Roley (F. Warne and Co, London and New York, 1889); Our warrior women (Witherby and Co, London, 1916); Out of the wreck I rise (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1912); Patuffa (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1923]); Rachel (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1926]); Search will find it out (Mills and Boon, London, 1928); Ships that pass in the night (Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1893); Spring shall plant (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1920); The fowler (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1899); The guiding thread (Methuen and Co, London, 1916); The scholar's daughter (Methuen and Co, London, 1906); Things will take a turn (Blackie and Son, London, [1889]); Thirteen all told (Methuen and Co, London, 1921); Untold tales of the past (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1897); Where your treasure is (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1918); Youth calling (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1924]).