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E. Gallienne Robin

A Channel Islands storyteller who wrote under a pen name, she drew on Guernsey and Sark for novels full of local color, coastal atmosphere, and island life.

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Where Deep Seas Moan

Where Deep Seas Moan

by E. Gallienne Robin

About the author

Born in Guernsey in January 1861, Ellen Mary Robin wrote as E. Gallienne Robin, combining her own surname with her mother's maiden name. Before and alongside her writing, she worked as a governess and later taught at schools in places including Norwich, Torquay, Dorking, and Kent.

Her fiction is especially associated with the Channel Islands. Works such as At the Leap of San Juan, Jeannette of Jersey, Jacquine of the Hut, and Christine: A Guernsey Girl show her lasting interest in Guernsey, Jersey, and Sark, and help explain why her stories still appeal to readers who enjoy regional settings and historical atmosphere.

She never married and died on September 21, 1938, in Lynn. While detailed biographical information appears to be limited, the records that are available suggest a writer deeply connected to island places and to the everyday lives of the communities she wrote about.