Effie Adelaide Rowlands

Born Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson, she became best known as Effie Adelaide Rowlands, while also publishing as E. Maria Albanesi and Madame Albanesi. Reliable reference sources agree that she was a British novelist with Australian beginnings, and that she built an unusually large career in commercial fiction.

She wrote well over 100 novels and many shorter pieces for magazines and newspapers, with romance as her best-known field. Her work appeared steadily from the 1880s into the 20th century, and she was remembered as one of the notably prolific popular writers of her era.

Because catalogues and later references sometimes list different birth years, it is safest to say that she died in 1936 after a long writing life that produced an impressive body of entertaining fiction for general readers.