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The Ursula Marlow Mysteries
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About Clare
As the child of British parents, I grew up in Australia with a strong sense of history. We were a nomadic family – my parents had emigrated to Canada from England in the mid 1960’s, where I was born, returned to England and then emigrated to Australia in the early 1970’s (where my sister was born). My mother, a history teacher, and father, an economics professor, instilled in me a love of art, history, and literature.
Latest Musings
Division within the WSPU – In my second Ursula Marlow book, The Serpent and The Scorpion, I allude to the schism that occurred within the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1912 over the issue of militancy. Read More
Edwardian Murder – I have just read a fascinating article about a murder case in Edwardian England in which a woman named Kitty Byron stabbed her loved (Alfred Baker) on the steps of their local post office. Read More
Female Spies – I’ve been up to my eyeballs in espionage. Starting with Tammy Proctor’s terrific “Female Intelligence, Women and Espionage in the First World War” followed by Julie Wheelwright’s “The Fatal Lover. Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage” and ending up with Matthew Seligmann’s “Spies in Uniform, British Military & Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the first World War”. Read More
