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Maud H. Yardley

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Maud H. Yardley
A white woman with dark hair, in an oval frame. She may be wearing a fur collar or stole.
Maud H. Yardley, from a 1906 publication.
Born6 March 1867
London, England
Died1 May 1954
Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Other namesMaud Hogarth Croft, Maude Mannering
OccupationWriter
Notable workSinless (novel, 1906)
SpouseWilliam Yardley

Maud Hogarth Yardley (6 March 1867 – 1 May 1954) was a British writer.

Personal life

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Maud H. Croft (or Mannering) was born in London in 1867, the daughter of Montague Mannering and Esther Croft. She married British writer, drama critic and former cricketer William Yardley,[1][2] in New York in 1886, and they had four children. She was widowed when William Yardley died in 1900,[3][4] and she died in 1954, aged 87 years, in Evesham, Worcestershire.[5]

Career

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Yardley was a widow with young children when she became a published author.[6] Her first novel, Sinless (1906), was described as a "foggy romance" of mistaken identities.[7][8] It was followed with an "engrossing" and "tragic" novel, Nor All Your Tears (1908).[9][10] She also wrote short stories for newspapers and magazines.[11][12][13]

Books by Maud H. Yardley

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  • Sinless (1906)[14]
  • Nor All Your Tears (1908)[15]
  • To-day and Love (1910)
  • At the Door of the Heart (1913)
  • Love's Debt (1913)
  • For You (1913)
  • Because (1913)[16]
  • The Willoughbys (1914)[17]
  • A Man's Life is Different, or The Sleeping Flame (1914)
  • Dare's Halliday Wooing (1915)[18]
  • Soulmates (1917)[19]
  • Mrs. John (1919)
  • Ordered to Marry! (1921)[17]

References

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  1. ^ Pullin, A. W. (1900). Talks with Old English Cricketers. W. Blackwood.
  2. ^ "Behind the Footlights". The Leader Courier. 25 August 1892. p. 6. Retrieved 30 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Another Prominent Cricketer Dead". The Courier and Argus. 29 October 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 30 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Cricket; Yorkshire v. Rest of England; Remarkable Batting". The Guardian. 13 September 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 30 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995; page 685 for 1954. via Ancestry.
  6. ^ "Small Talk of the Week". The Sketch. 37: 91. 5 February 1902.
  7. ^ "A Foggy Romance". The Bystander. 11: 658. 26 September 1906.
  8. ^ "Shocking, but Well Told". The Sun. 24 August 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 29 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "From Messrs. Sisley's". The Bookseller: 372. 9 April 1908.
  10. ^ "The Cost of One False Step". The Baltimore Sun. 28 June 1908. p. 19. Retrieved 29 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Yardley, Maud H. (20 June 1907). "When a Woman Loves". London Evening News. p. 6. Retrieved 29 April 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  12. ^ Yardley, Maud H. (20 June 1902). "The End of the Chapter". The Saint Paul Globe. p. 6. Retrieved 29 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Yardley, Maud H. (20 August 1915). "Dare Halliday's Wooing, Chapter 1". Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser. p. 4. Retrieved 29 April 2021 – via Trove.
  14. ^ Yardley, Maud H. (1906). Sinless: a novel /. New York : R. F. Fenno. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t47p8w76s.
  15. ^ Yardley, Maud H. (1908). Nor all your tears. New York: R.F. Fenno.
  16. ^ "THE REASON WHY". Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). 7 February 1914. p. 4. Retrieved 29 August 2020 – via Trove.
  17. ^ a b Thalange, Nandu. "Girls' Friend Library". The Friardale Website. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Dare Halliday's Wooing". Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser (SA : 1878 - 1922). 17 September 1915. p. 4. Retrieved 29 August 2020 – via Trove.
  19. ^ "Untitled item". The Observer. 36: 15. 22 July 1916 – via Papers Past.
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