Sydney C. Grier

Hilda Caroline Gregg (June 20, 1868 – June 22, 1933), better known by the pen name Sydney C. Grier, was an English novelist and short-story writer. She first published fiction in The Bristol Times, and her first novel was issued by William Blackwood and Sons in the mid-1890s.

She became especially known for popular adventure novels featuring British characters abroad, with stories set in places such as India, Afghanistan, Baghdad, and other parts of the wider empire. Writing as Sydney C. Grier gave her work a brisk, confident public identity, and she published steadily for many years, reportedly bringing out a novel almost every year until 1925.

Today she is remembered both for the energy of her storytelling and for the way her books reflect the tastes and assumptions of late Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction. She also appears in literary reference works under her real name, Hilda Gregg, which helps place her within the broader history of women writers who published under pseudonyms.