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Nevis Shane
d. 1934
Known for a romantic short story that has found new life through digital libraries, this early-20th-century writer published fiction under the name Nevis Shane. The surviving record is slim, which only adds a little mystery to the work that remains.
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The enchanted kingdom
by Nevis Shane
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. The clearest details I could verify are that Nevis Shane was a pseudonym associated with Clara Josephine Morris, and that she lived from 1901 to 1934.
Her best-known surviving work online is The Enchanted Kingdom, a romantic story from the late 1920s that is now available through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain collections. A bookseller listing for Dark Flame also connects the name Nevis Shane with the alternate name Sonya Sherarer, suggesting she may have published under more than one identity.
Because the record is fragmentary, it is safest to remember Nevis Shane as a little-documented author whose fiction has outlived the details of her life. That small air of uncertainty gives her work a certain charm: a voice from the past, still readable even when the person behind it is only partly known.