Elizabeth Hyde Reid

An English writer, she is identified by Wikidata and Wikisource as Elizabeth Reid, née Elizabeth Hyde, and as the widow of novelist Thomas Mayne Reid. Those sources also describe her as the daughter of G. W. Hyde, who was Mayne Reid’s publisher.

She is chiefly remembered for biographical work connected to her husband. The records found here point especially to Mayne Reid; a Memoir of His Life and Captain Mayne Reid: His Life and Adventures, books that helped preserve details of his career for later readers.

Although not much detailed biographical information was easy to confirm from the sources reviewed, her writing still matters as a close personal account of a well-known adventure novelist and his literary circle.