Cicely Kent

Very little about this author can be confirmed from reliable online sources beyond the books themselves. Public-domain library records and digitized editions identify Cicely Kent as the author of Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup, a work published in the early 1920s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The surviving record suggests a writer associated with popular fortune-telling manuals rather than a widely documented literary career. One specialist book-history page notes that even the first editions vary between Cicely and Cecily Kent, and suggests the name may have been a pseudonym.

Because solid biographical details are so scarce, Kent is remembered mainly through the continuing life of the work itself: a practical, conversational introduction to tasseography that has outlasted its era and found new readers through digital archives.