magazines. Mrs Mordaunt travelled in the East Indies and adjacent islands and used her experiences in her fiction, and in travel books such as The Venture Book, The Further Venture Book, and Purely for Pleasure. Her autobiography, Sinabada, published in 1937, includes an account of her early life in Australia with appreciative reference to the kindnesses she had received. Her son by her first marriage was alive when she was writing Sinabada; she mentions that he had married and had children. On 27 January 1933 at Tenerife, Canary Islands, she was married to Robert Rawnsley Bowles, aged 66, a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage "ended in tragedy." She died on 25 June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Possibly her best work was put into her short stories, often showing a grim sense of tragedy and humour. A collection of them appeared in 1934, The Tales of Elinor Mordaunt. In addition to the volumes included in Miller, she was also the author of Death it is, Judge Not, Hobby Horse, Roses in December, Tropic Heat, Here Too is Valour, and Blitz Kids. Mordaunt was revealed as the author of a pseudonymous novel called Gin and Bitters, referencing the debate in the London publishing world over whether Somerset Maugham had based the character of Alroy Kear in Cakes and Ale on Hugh Walpole. The book was removed from sale in the UK, apparently under pressure from Maugham. Bibliography As E. M. Clowes Non-fiction On the Wallaby: Through Australia (1911) As 'Eleanor Mordaunt' A Ship of Solace (1911) The Cost of It (1912) Lu of the Ranges (1913) The Garden of Contentment (1913) As 'Elinor Mordaunt' Non-fiction People, Houses and Ships (1924) The Further Venture Book (1926) Purely for Pleasure (1931) Sinabada (1937) Hobby Horse (1940) Novels Simpson (1914) Bellamy (1914) The Rose of Youth (1915) The Family (1915) The Park Wall (1916) The Pendulum (1918) The Processionals (1918) The Little Soul (1920) Laura Creichton (1921) Alas, That Spring - ! (1922) Reputation (1923) The Dark Fire (1927) The Centre of the Cyclone. Serialised: Daily Mirror (1928) And Then? (1927) Father and Daughter (1928) These Generations (1930) Full Circle (1931) Cross Winds (1932) The Girl and the Colt. Serialised: Wicklow People (1932) Mrs Van Kleek (1933) Royals Free (1937) Three Generations (1937) Pity of the World (1938) Roses in December (1939) Judge Not (1940) Blitz Kids (1941)