Maud Diver

Born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall in Murree, British India, Maud Diver (1867–1945) grew up in India and Ceylon and was educated in England. She married Thomas Diver, an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and later settled in England with him and their son, Cyril.

Diver published her first novel, Captain Desmond, V.C., in 1907. It was followed by The Great Amulet and Candles in the Wind, which formed a trilogy about life on the Indian frontier. She also wrote The Englishwoman in India, historical biographies, short stories, and later works including The Hero of Herat, Kabul to Kandahar, and Royal India. Her books were successful in their time and are now valued as portraits of Anglo-Indian society and imperial-era ideas about culture, marriage, and identity.