Mrs. Rodolph Stawell

Born Maud Margaret Key in 1865, she became known in print as Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Sources available here identify her as an English author and translator, and note that she lived from 1865 to 1949.

Her work crossed several genres. Listings of her books include Fairies I Have Met, Fabre's Book of Insects, Motor Tours in the West Country, Motor Tours in Wales and the Border Counties, The Flight of Marie Antoinette, The Last Days of Marie Antoinette, and Robespierre's Rise and Fall. That mix suggests a writer equally at home with children's literature, travel, and popular history.

She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key and married surgeon Rodolph de Salis Stawell in 1900. She outlived her husband and died in 1949. A confirmed portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.