author
Amabel Williams-Ellis
1894–1984
Remembered as a lively literary presence around the Bloomsbury circle, she wrote criticism, memoir, and retellings while helping bring fairy tales, folk stories, and science fiction to new generations of readers.
1 Audiobook
The Tank Corps
by Clough Williams-Ellis, Amabel Williams-Ellis
About the author
Born Mary Annabel Nassau Strachey in Surrey in 1894, she became known as Amabel Williams-Ellis after her marriage to the architect Clough Williams-Ellis. She was part of the wider Bloomsbury world and was related to Lytton Strachey, growing up in a well-known literary family.
Her work ranged widely: she wrote criticism and memoir, and she was especially active as an editor, translator, and anthologist. Across the years she assembled collections of fairy tales, folk tales, and science fiction, showing an instinct for stories that were imaginative, readable, and full of character.
Late in life she published the memoir All Stracheys Are Cousins, adding a personal view of the family and cultural world she had known so well. She died in 1984, leaving behind a body of work that connects literary conversation, popular storytelling, and a lasting love of books.