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A little-known Victorian-era writer, remembered today for children's fiction including The Mavis and the Merlin. The surviving record is sparse, which makes her work feel like a small rediscovered corner of 19th-century publishing.
Mary H. Debenham appears to have been a British author active in the late 19th century. A reliable bibliographic record from the Victorian fiction reference site At the Circulating Library identifies her as the author of The Mavis and the Merlin, published in London by the National Society's Depository in 1895.
Very little biographical information about her seems to be readily available in major public sources, and no well-established reference entry was found with fuller personal details. Because of that, she is best understood through the small published trace she left behind: a writer associated with Victorian juvenile literature and religious or educational publishing.
No confirmed portrait of Mary H. Debenham was found in the sources reviewed, so none is included here.