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 girl's school near Covent Garden. With the help of friends she published poems and stories, using the pseudonym "Edward Garrett". In 1870 Isabella maried John Ryall Mayo, a solicitor, who died in 1877, leaving her with one son. She spend most of her life living in Aberdeen. In Aberdeen, she was the first woman elected to a public board. She died on May 3th 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)

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/helenvict0r/Mayo.html Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" (1843-1914)]
*worldcat id|lccn-n90-670734
* [http://gerald-massey.org.uk/fyvie-mayo/index.htm Isabela Fyvie Mayo ("Edward Garrett)] biography & selected writings at gerald-massey.org.uk