A. (Ada) Goodrich-Freer

Born in England in 1857, Ada Goodrich Freer wrote travel books, fiction, and studies connected with folklore and psychical research. She also published under the pseudonym Miss X, a name closely tied to her work on clairvoyance, second sight, and haunted places.

Her career ranged widely. Alongside psychical investigations, she produced travel writing shaped by close attention to local custom and landscape, including books on Syria and the Hebrides. That mix of curiosity, storytelling, and interest in unusual belief made her a distinctive voice for readers drawn to the stranger corners of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writing.

Some details of her life have been presented differently in later catalogs and references, but the most consistent sources describe her as a controversial figure in psychical research whose reputation became tangled with disputed investigations. She died in New York in 1931.