author
Ysabel De Witte
A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered for travel and historical books with vivid settings, and for collaborating on the novel Mothers of Men. Her work moves from Palestine to the Riviera and Venice, suggesting a taste for romance, place, and atmosphere.
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Mothers of men
by William Henry Warner, Ysabel De Witte
About the author
Ysabel De Witte appears in library and public-domain records as an author active in the early 1900s, sometimes also listed under the name De Witte Kaplan. Confirmed titles linked to her include The Stones of Palestine, The Romance and Legend of the Riviera, The Story of the Four Towns: Nice, Monaco, Cannes, Menton, and A Daughter of Venice.
She is also credited, alongside William Henry Warner, as co-author of Mothers of Men, a novel later preserved by Project Gutenberg. A few film and catalog records connect that work to the 1920 screen adaptation Mothers of Men, which helps show that her writing reached beyond the printed page.
Reliable biographical detail about her life is scarce, so it is safest to describe her as a somewhat obscure author whose surviving reputation rests on evocative travel writing, historical color, and romantic fiction set in richly imagined places.