Edith Money Maturin
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| Born | 25 June 1860 |
| Died | 8 October 1945 (aged 85) London, England, UK |
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| Children | 3 including |
Edith Emily Money Maturin Porch (née Money; 25 June 1860 – 8 October 1945), known by the pseudonyms Mrs. Fred Maturin and Edith Cecil-Porch, was a British travel writer, novelist, journalist, and magazine writer.
Biography
[edit]Money Maturin was born Edith Emily Money on 25 June 1860 in Naini Tal, British India (present-day Nainital, India) to Lieutenant Colonel Edward James D'oyly Thrale Money and Georgina Mary Money (née Russell).[1][2][3] In 1882, she married Colonel Fred Maturin in Darjeeling. They would have three children, including actor Eric Bagot Maturin.[4] She separated from Maturin and had an affair with Lt. Colonel Cecil Porch after they met in Rhodesia. The Maturins had a public divorce proceeding and she and Porch had a short-lived marriage.[5][6][7] After her divorce she continued to publish under her married name and was also identified by the name Edith Cecil-Porch.[7]
Many of her works were exotic and orientalising accounts of her childhood in India or hunting expeditions in Africa.[8][7][6] She also published the early science fiction story "Our Animated Flat” (The Strand, July 1903), a humorous account of household technology.[9] Her book Rachel Comforted (1920) purported to be a series of spirit communications from 1901 and 1902 with her then-recently deceased son Gordon.[10]
On 8 October 1945, Money Maturin died in London aged 85.[11][12]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Thin Red Line of Heroes. London: G. Richards, 1903.[13]
- Petronel of Paradise. London: E. Nash, 1907.[13]
- Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek. London: E. Nash, 1909.[13]
- Adventures beyond the Zambesi, of the O’Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913.[7]
- Rachel Comforted: Conversations of a Mother in the Dark with her Child in the Light. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1920.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Edith Emily Money [baptismal record]". India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947 [database online]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 12 August 1860.
- ↑ "Edward James D'oyly Thrale Money and Georgina Mary Russell [marriage index]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes; Westminster; St Margaret. 1a (Q2): 417. 1858.
- ↑ "Deaths: MONEY". The Belfast News Letter. Vol. CLIII, no. 23189. Belfast. 1 November 1889. p. 1.
MONEY – October 26, at Worthing, Edward James Doyley [D'oyly] Thrale Money, Lieutenant colonel, aged 67 years
- ↑ Massue, Melville Henry (1908). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. Vol. Isabel of Essex. Genealogical Publishing Co. (published 1994). p. 253. ISBN 0-8063-1434-6.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Parsons, Roger (2014). Victorian Edgarley: The fall of the House of Porch (2nd ed.). Glastonbury: Abbey Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - 1 2 Shadle, Brett Lindsay (2015). The souls of white folk: white settlers in Kenya, 1900s - 1920s. Studies in imperialism (1st ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780719095344.
- 1 2 3 4 Thompsell, Angela (2015). Hunting Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137494436. ISBN 978-1-137-49442-9.
- ↑ Cordell, Sigrid Anderson (September 2014). "EDITH MATURIN AND THE WIDE WORLD MAGAZINE : NEW WOMAN REWRITINGS OF IMPERIAL ADVENTURE". Victorian Literature and Culture. 42 (3): 457–474. doi:10.1017/S1060150314000096. ISSN 1060-1503.
- ↑ "Science-fiction, the early years : a full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930 : with author, title, and motif indexes : Bleiler, Everett Franklin, 1920- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 3 August 2026.
- 1 2 Green, Richard Lancelyn (1983). "A bibliography of A. Conan Doyle". Clarendon Press. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "Porch Edith Emily". Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London: National Probate Calendar: 518. 1946.
- ↑ "Edith E Porch [death index]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 1a (Q4). London: General Register Office: 90. 1945.
- 1 2 3 "Novels in English by women, 1891-1920 : a preliminary checklist : Grimes, Janet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
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