author
Beth Ellis
1874–1913
A British novelist and travel writer, she is best remembered for a witty, observant account of her journey to Burma and for fiction that mixed romance with a light touch. Her work offers a vivid glimpse of late Victorian and Edwardian reading tastes.
2 Audiobooks
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
by Beth Ellis
Barbara Winslow, Rebel
by Beth Ellis
About the author
Elizabeth Ellis, who wrote as Beth Ellis, was a British novelist and travel writer. Reliable library and reference sources identify her as having been born in 1874 and dying on August 2, 1913.
Her best-known nonfiction book, An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah (1899), draws on her travels and is often noted for its humor and sharp eye for social detail. She also wrote novels including Barbara Winslow, Rebel and The Fair Moon of Bath, building a career that moved between travel writing and popular fiction.
Although not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, her surviving books still appeal to readers interested in women travelers, British popular fiction, and firsthand writing from the turn of the twentieth century.