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Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 – 31 March 1927) was a British
accessed 9 Nov 2017
/ref> *''When the Sun Moves Northward'' (1912) *''The Transparent Jewel'' (1913) *''The Story of Sensa'' (
Mabel Collins biography
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Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 – 31 March 1927) was a British theosophist
Theosophy is a religion established in the United States during the late 19th century. It was founded primarily by the Russian Helena Blavatsky and draws its teachings predominantly from Blavatsky's writings. Categorized by scholars of religion a ...
and author of over 46 books.
Life
Collins was born inSt Peter Port
St. Peter Port (french: Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2019 was 18,958.
St. P ...
, Guernsey
Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency.
It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...
. She was a writer of popular occult novels, a fashion writer and an anti-vivisection campaigner.
In 1909 she wrote a political play called ''Outlawed'' with Alice Chapin
Alice Chapin or Alice Ferris (August 28, 1857 – July 5, 1934) was an American actress, playwright and suffragette active in England. She returned to America and played roles in silent films.
Life
Chapin was born in Keene, New Hampshire to Eph ...
. Chapin was an American born actress who was an active suffragette. By the time it was produced at the Court Theatre in November 1911 Chapin was a convicted criminal for her militancy.
Gossip
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pro ...
claimed that Vittoria Cremers
Vittoria Cremers (''Vittoria Cassini''; born c. 1859), was an Italian Theosophist.
Early years
Cremers was born in Pisa, Italy, and was the daughter of Italian Manrico Vittorio Cassini and his British wife, Agnes Elizabeth Rutherford.
Career
Cre ...
had suggested that Collins was at one time being romantically pursued by both Cremers and alleged occultist Robert Donston Stephenson. Cremers supposedly claimed that during this time she found five blood-soaked ties in a trunk under Stephenson's bed, corresponding to the five murders committed in Whitechapel by Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer wa ...
.
Works
*''Light on the Path'' (1885) *''The Prettiest Woman in Warsaw'' (1885) *''Through the Gates of Gold'' (1887) *''The Blossom and the Fruit'' (1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
)
*''The Idyll of the White Lotus'' (1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
)
*''Morial the Mahatma'' (1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
)
*''Suggestion'' (1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
)
*''Juliet’s Lovers'' (1893)
*''The Story of the Year'' (1895)
*''The Star Sapphire'' ( 1896)
*''A Cry From Afar'' (1905)
*''Loves Chaplet'' (1905)
*''Fragments of Thought and Life'' (1908)
*''Outlawed'' (1909) with Alice Chapin
Alice Chapin or Alice Ferris (August 28, 1857 – July 5, 1934) was an American actress, playwright and suffragette active in England. She returned to America and played roles in silent films.
Life
Chapin was born in Keene, New Hampshire to Eph ...
- a play staged in 1911Maggie B. Gale, 'Chapin, Harold (1886–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 201accessed 9 Nov 2017
/ref> *''When the Sun Moves Northward'' (1912) *''The Transparent Jewel'' (1913) *''The Story of Sensa'' (
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
) (A mystery play in three acts adapted from The Idyll of the White Lotus).
*''As the Flower Grows'' (1915)
See also
* Mabel Collins as fiction writerReferences
*External links
Mabel Collins biography
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