Isabella Fyvie Mayo

Isabella Fyvie Mayo (December 10, 1843 - May 13, 1914) was a Scottish poet, and novelist who also wrote under the pen name Edward Garrett.

Born as the youngest child of Scottish parentage in London in 1843, Isabella was privately educated at a girls' school near Covent Garden. With the help of friends she published poems and stories, using the pseudonym Edward Garrett. In 1870 Isabella married John Ryall Mayo, a solicitor, who died in 1877, leaving her with one son. She spent most of her life living in Aberdeen. In Aberdeen, she was the first woman elected to a public board. Her "home was an asylum for Asian Indians."^[1] She died on May 3, 1914, of cancer.

Publications

• Occupations of a Retired Life (1868)
• The Crust of the Cake (1869)
• Seen and Heard (1871)
• Premiums paid to Experience (1872)
• Crooked Places (1873)
• By Still Waters (1874)
• Doing and Dreaming (1876)
• Not by Bread Alone (1890)
• Her Day of Service (1892)
• A Black Diamond (1893)
• Rab Bethuene's Double (1894)
• A Daughter of the Klephts (1897)
• A Nine Days Wonder (1898)
• Other People's Stairs (1898)
• Crystal Joyce (1899)
• Recollections of Fifty Years, autobiography (1910)

Notes

1. Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, at 85 (Modern Library 2003).

External links

• Works by Isabella Fyvie Mayo at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edward Garrett at Internet Archive
• Works by or about Isabella Fyvie Mayo at Internet Archive
• Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" (1843-1914) at the On-line Books site
• Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" (1843-1914) at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2009)
• Isabela Fyvie Mayo ("Edward Garrett) biography & selected writings at gerald-massey.org.uk