author
Anthony Pryde
A pen name tied to early 20th-century popular fiction, this author is linked with romantic and dramatic novels such as Nightfall, Jenny Essenden, and Marqueray's Duel. The books suggest a writer drawn to emotional conflict, society, and suspenseful turns of fate.
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Nightfall
by Anthony Pryde
About the author
Anthony Pryde was a pen name used for a body of fiction published in the early 1900s. Library and catalog records connect the name with novels including Nightfall, Jenny Essenden, Clair de Lune, An Ordeal of Honor, and Marqueray's Duel.
Some sources identify Anthony Pryde as a pseudonym of Agnes Russell Weekes, and at least one catalog record shows the name being used alongside R. K. Weekes, suggesting the byline may at times have been shared or connected within the Weekes family. Because the records are not fully consistent, it is safest to treat Anthony Pryde primarily as a pseudonymous author name rather than assign every work with complete certainty to one person alone.
What does come through clearly is the range of fiction published under the name: romances, society novels, and melodramatic stories that found readers in the first decades of the 20th century and still survive in library collections and reprints today.