Amabel Williams-Ellis

Amabel Williams-Ellis (1894-1983), full name Lady Mary Annabel Nassau Williams-Ellis (née Strachey), was an English writer and anthologist. She co-edited the SF series 'Out of this World', and retold fairy stories as well as writing novels, biographies and other non-fiction. She was also a founder-editor of the left-wing journal 'The Left Review'.

I first became interested in Amabel Williams-Ellis after I realised that the same woman who had written my favourite childhood books of fairy tales had also edited several volumes of science fiction stories. These pages grew out of a desire to consolidate what I found out about her, so it would not be so difficult for other people.

Most of what I have discovered has been recorded in a series of blog entries; I have also compiled a biliography of her non-journalistic work, of which there is much!

Bibliography

Blogging on Amabel

• On Amabel Williams-Ellis, who told my favourite fairy stories
• 'Changeling' - a short story
• 'The Art of Being a Woman'
• Amabel Williams-Ellis: "readable but undistinguished"
• Amabel Williams-Ellis: may have approved of labour camps
• Proper researchers make pages on Amabel Williams-Ellis. I can't get in.

Further Reading

• Amabel Williams-Ellis - part of The Orlando Project; requires subscription access to go beyond the front page
• Out of This World - Farah Mendlesohn on the series Williams-Ellis co-edited