Life
1864-1932 [Clotilde Inez Mary; pseudo Richard Dehan]; b. Buttevant, Co.
Cork; dg. of an Irish clergyman [prob. dg. of Rev. Robert Graves, a brother
of the bishop, and Alfred’s cousin]; studied art in Bloomsbury; author
of 16 plays in NY and Lon, including Nitocris, a play in verse
(Drury Lane, 1887); also the pantomime Puss in Boots (1898); The
Lover’s Battle (1902), and a heroical comedy in verse, based
on Rape of the Lock; a London journalist, she wrote a successful
novel The Dop Doctor [1911] as Richard Dehan; and Between Two
Thieves (1914); constant contrib. to comic mag. Judy. See also
Irish Book Lover 6. PI DIW OCIL.
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Works
(as Clotilde Inez Mary Graves, The Belle of Rock Harbour, a tale
(London: Judy Off 1887), 79p., ill.. L Willson; Dragon’s
Teeth, novel (London: Dalziel Bros 1891), iv, 292pp., and ed. (Holden
& Hardingham, 1925), 376pp.; The General’s Past, (London:
Stage Publishing Bureau 1925), 40pp.; The Lovers’ Battle,
a heroical comedy in rhyme, founded on Alexander Pope’s ‘Rape
of the Lock’ [verse play] (Grant Richards 1902), viii, 226pp.; Maids
in a Market Garden, novel (London: WH Allen & Co., 1894), iv,
252pp; another edn., Holden & Hardingham [1914], 126pp.[?]; A Mother
of Three, 3 act farce in TH Lacy, Vol. 157 [1850s] (190?); The
Pirate’s Hand, a Romance of Heredity, by the author of ‘Kneecapped’,
ed. C Graves (Judy 1889), 122pp., pref. signed RLS, parody of R L. Stevenson
intended; Nitocris,m a play in verse (Performed at Drury Lane, 1887);
Seven Xmas Eves, being a romance of social evolution [tales], C.
Graves, B. L. Farjeon, and 5 others (London: Hutchinson & Co [1894]),
viii, 264pp; A Well-Meaning Woman, novel (London: Hutchinson 1896),
vii 344pp. AS RICHARD DEHAN, Between Two Thieves (London: William
Heinemann 1912), 712pp; The Cost of Wings and Other Stories (London:
William Heinemann 1914), vii, 300pp; Dead Pearls, novel of the
Great Wide West (John Long [1893]), 336pp.; The Dop Doctor (London:
William Heinemann 1911), v, 671pp., another ed. (1913); The Headquarter
Recruit and Other Stories (London: William Heinemann 1913), ix, 368pp.;
The Man of Iron (London: William Heinemann 1915), x, 815pp., another
ed. (Thomas Nelson 1915); Earth to Earth (London: William Heinemann
1916), vii, 328; Off Sandy Hook, short stories (London: William
Heinemann 1915), vii, 322p.; Gilded Vanity (London: William Heinemann
1916), v, 314pp.; A Sailors’ Home and Other Stories (London:
William Heinemann 1919), vii, 319pp.; Eve of Pascua and Other Stories
(London: William Heinemann 1920), 288pp.; The Villa of the Peacock
and Other Stories (London: William Heinemann 1921); The Eve of
Pasqua (London: William Heinemann 1920); The Just Steward (London:
William Heinemann 1922), 587pp.; The Man with the Mask and Other Stories
(Thornton & Buttworth 1924), 316pp.; The Pipers of the Market-Place
(Thornton & Buttworth 1924), 350pp.; Shallow Seas (Thornton
& Buttworth 1930), 313pp.; The Sower of the Wind (Thornton
& Buttworth 1927), 446pp.; That Which Hath Wings, a novel of
the day (London: William Heinemann 1918), 492pp.; The Third Graft and
Other Stories (John Long] [1933]), 254pp.; Under the Hermés
and Other Stories (London: William Heinemann 1917), vii, 341pp.; Also
Dead Pearls (London: John Long 1932); The Lovers’ Battle
(London: Grant Richards [n.d.]). [See British Library Catalogue.]
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Notes
Eggeley (Cataloge No. 44) lists Shallow Seas (Thornton & Buttworth
1930), x+11-313pp., Java and South Seas during First World War; The Sower
of the Wind (Thornton & Buttworth 1927), xiv, 5-446pp., set among
aborigines of NW Australia.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)