author
Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs
b. 1873
Known for early 20th-century romantic adventure fiction, this little-known novelist published a run of titles including The Black Cross, The Fir and the Palm, and The Bachelor Dinner. Her work often blends melodrama, travel, and high-stakes emotion in the style of popular fiction of the period.
1 Audiobook
The Black Cross
by Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs
About the author
Olive M. Briggs, listed in library and Project Gutenberg records as Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs, 1873-, was a novelist active in the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and ebook sources confirm her authorship of The Black Cross, and book records also attribute to her titles such as The Love of Karpeles, The Madonna's Necklace, A d'Artagnan of To-Day, The Fir and the Palm, The Pound of Flesh, and The Bachelor Dinner.
Although biographical details about her life are scarce, the surviving record of her books suggests a writer drawn to dramatic plots, romance, and international settings. Her fiction belongs to the world of popular early 20th-century storytelling, where feeling, suspense, and atmosphere matter as much as realism.
Because so little personal information is readily documented, Briggs remains better known through her novels than through her life story. That relative obscurity gives her work an added curiosity for modern readers interested in forgotten women writers and the tastes of the Edwardian reading public.