E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

Born in Calcutta in 1865, Ethel Winifred Bryning was privately educated and later married John Angelo Savi in 1884. She lived for many years in rural Bengal, where her husband worked first as a planter and later as a colliery manager, and the couple had four children.

She wrote short stories for Indian and English journals before building a career as a novelist under the name E. W. Savi. Her fiction was often set in British India, and books such as Banked Fires, Rulers of Men, and The Love Call are remembered for their mix of romance, social observation, and the pressures of Anglo-Indian life.

Savi died in 1954. Although she is not widely known today, her work remains useful to readers interested in popular fiction about colonial India and in women's writing shaped by lived experience there.