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Mrs. Hubert Barclay
1871–1952
A novelist of the early 20th century, she published romantic fiction under her married name and later turned to Scottish historical storytelling. Her books include Trevor Lordship, A Dream of Blue Roses, East of the Shadows, and the later The Queen's Cause.
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East of the Shadows
by Mrs. Hubert Barclay
About the author
Born Edith Noël Daniell in India in late 1871, she wrote as Mrs. Hubert Barclay after her marriage to Colonel Hubert Frederick Barclay in 1890. Library and book records connect her pen name with Edith Noël Daniell, and surviving editions show her publishing fiction from at least 1911 through the late 1930s.
Her known books include Trevor Lordship (1911), A Dream of Blue Roses (1912), and East of the Shadows (1913), a novel later preserved by Project Gutenberg. By 1938 she had also published The Queen's Cause, a historical novel set in the age of Mary, Queen of Scots.
She seems to have moved between popular romantic fiction and historical narrative, with her work remembered today mainly through digitized editions and library catalogs rather than a large modern critical revival. Some reference sources also note her involvement with the Mothers' Union, but the details available in open sources are brief, so that part of her public life is less clearly documented.