author
Ysabel De Teresa
1886–1978
A little-known early 20th-century novelist, remembered today for elegant, emotionally charged fiction such as The Erratic Flame and The Nymph Was Mortal. Her work blends romance, introspection, and an interest in art and feeling, giving it the atmosphere of a rediscovered literary classic.
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The erratic flame
by Ysabel De Teresa
About the author
Born in 1886 and died in 1978, Ysabel De Teresa is a largely overlooked novelist whose name survives mainly through surviving editions and library-style records of her books. Project Gutenberg lists The Erratic Flame, and other book records also associate her with The Nymph Was Mortal.
Because reliable biographical material about her is scarce, much of her life remains unclear from the sources available here. What can be said with confidence is that she belonged to the generation of writers publishing fiction in the early 20th century, and that her work has continued to circulate through reprints and digital archives long after her lifetime.
Readers coming to De Teresa now may be drawn to her mood more than to her fame: her novels suggest an interest in passion, inner conflict, and cultivated social worlds. She is one of those authors whose surviving books offer the pleasure of discovery, especially for listeners who enjoy forgotten fiction from the last century.