author
May Bateman
1872–1938
A British novelist, poet, and journalist whose career moved between fiction and magazine work, she wrote stories with a strong feel for society, emotion, and place. Her surviving books offer a glimpse of a versatile literary life in the late Victorian and Edwardian years.
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Farquharson of Glune
by May Bateman
About the author
Educated at the Anglo-French College in South Kensington, she built a varied writing career as a novelist, poet, and journalist. Sources describe her as having worked as a correspondent for the Daily Express and as editor of the Imperial Colonist, while also contributing to magazines including Good Housekeeping and Harper’s Bazaar.
Her published fiction included The Altar of Life (1898), The Glowworm (1901), and Farquharson of Glune (1908). She is still remembered mainly through these novels and through digital library archives that have preserved some of her work for modern readers.
Biographical records located during this search identify her as May Geraldine Frances Bateman, born in London in 1872 and dying in 1938. No suitable verified portrait image was found on the source pages reviewed, so none is included here.