Edith Allonby

Edith Allonby was an English schoolteacher from Lancashire who published two fantastic novels with Greening of London, The Jewel Sowers in 1903 and Marigold in 1905, both set on Lucifram, a shadow world near Hell whose inhabitants are contrary versions of ourselves, and both written as moral allegories in a heightened, deliberately strange prose. Reviewers were divided between admiration for her imagination and impatience with her manner. She died in 1905, the year Marigold appeared, by her own hand, leaving a final novel, The Fulfilment, which was published after her death. She is remembered, when she is remembered at all, as one of the odder voices of Edwardian fantasy.