K. (Kate) Prichard

Born Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard in Jhansi, Gwalior, in 1851, she was a British author who also wrote under the joint pseudonym E. & H. Heron with her son, Hesketh Prichard. Reference sources including ISFDB and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction identify her as Kate Prichard and note her lifespan as 1851–1935.

She is most often remembered for the books she wrote with Hesketh Prichard, including adventure fiction and supernatural stories. Library of Congress records show her credited as K. (Kate) Prichard on works such as Daughters of Dreams from 1901, and genre references connect her with the early occult-detective tradition through the Flaxman Low stories.

Although she is less famous today than some of her contemporaries, her fiction has had a long afterlife among readers of classic supernatural and adventure writing. Her career is a good example of how collaborative authorship helped shape popular fiction at the turn of the twentieth century.