Maud Diver

Born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall in Murree, British India, on September 9, 1867, she grew up in India and Ceylon before later settling in England. Writing as Maud Diver, she became known for fiction and nonfiction centered on British India, bringing firsthand knowledge of the places and social worlds she described.

Her work ranged across novels, short stories, journalism, and biography. Readers often remember her for Anglo-Indian novels such as The Great Amulet and Candles in the Wind, as well as for biographies including studies of figures connected with imperial India.

Maud Diver died on October 14, 1945, in Hindhead, Surrey. Today she is chiefly of interest to readers drawn to popular early-20th-century writing about India, especially books that reflect both the reach and the tensions of the British imperial world.