Mrs. Charles Clacy

Ellen Clacy, who also wrote as Mrs Charles Clacy and under the pseudonym Cycla, was an English writer and journalist born in Richmond, Surrey, in 1830. She is chiefly remembered for A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852–1853, a book based on her journey to the Victorian goldfields and published in 1853.

That travel narrative remains the work most closely associated with her because it captures the Australian gold rush from an unusual perspective: a woman traveling through rough conditions and recording what she saw with immediacy and wit. Sources also identify her as a novelist and periodical writer, showing that her career stretched beyond travel writing alone.

She later married mining engineer Charles Berry Clacy and had a daughter, Ellen Louise Clacy, who became an artist. Ellen Clacy died in London in 1901. I couldn’t confirm a suitable verified portrait image from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.