Isabella Fyvie Mayo
Isabella Fyvie Mayo (December 10, 1843 - May 13, 1914) was a Scottish poet, and novelist who also wrote under the pen name Edward Garrett.
Born as the youngest child of Scottish parentage in London in 1843, Isabella was privately educated at a girls' school near Covent Garden. With the help of friends she published poems and stories, using the pseudonym Edward Garrett. In 1870 Isabella married John Ryall Mayo, a solicitor, who died in 1877, leaving her with one son. She spent most of her life living in Aberdeen. In Aberdeen, she was the first woman elected to a public board. Her "home was an asylum for Asian Indians."[1] She died on May 3, 1914, of cancer.
Publications
- Occupations of a Retired Life (1868)
- The Crust of the Cake (1869)
- Seen and Heard (1871)
- Premiums paid to Experience (1872)
- Crooked Places (1873)
- By Still Waters (1874)
- Doing and Dreaming (1876)
- Not by Bread Alone (1890)
- Her Day of Service (1892)
- A Black Diamond (1893)
- Rab Bethuene's Double (1894)
- A Daughter of the Klephts (1897)
- A Nine Days Wonder (1898)
- Other People's Stairs (1898)
- Crystal Joyce (1899)
- Recollections of Fifty Years, autobiography (1910)
Notes
- ^ Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, at 85 (Modern Library 2003).
External links
- Works by Isabella Fyvie Mayo at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edward Garrett at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Isabella Fyvie Mayo at Internet Archive
- Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" (1843-1914) at the On-line Books site
- Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" (1843-1914) at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2009)
- Isabela Fyvie Mayo ("Edward Garrett) biography & selected writings at gerald-massey.org.uk
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