Richard Dehan

Born in County Cork in 1863, Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves wrote under the pseudonym Richard Dehan, and also used the name Clo. Graves. She was largely self-educated, studied art in London, and worked as an actress and journalist before becoming known as a novelist and playwright.

Her writing career was remarkably varied. Graves found success in London and New York with stage work, and she published fiction under the Richard Dehan name, including Between Two Thieves, The Just Steward, and Dead Pearls. She is also remembered for work that reached into speculative fiction, showing how comfortably she moved across different kinds of storytelling.

In later life she faced financial difficulty, though her reputation as a hardworking and versatile author endured. She died in 1932, leaving behind a career that was unusually wide-ranging for its time and a body of work that still catches attention for its energy and independence.