Gladys Skelton (6 September 1885 – 29 September 1975) was an Australian and United Kingdom poet, novelist and playwright who wrote using the pseudonym John Presland.
Gladys Skelton was born Gladys Williams in Melbourne in 1885. [1]
Skelton gained history honours at Girton College, Cambridge University and was a university lecturer in English literature and lecturer in history and economics. [2] [3] She was one of a group of women writers who used a male pseudonym. [3] In 1928, after a charge by Lord Birkenhead that women writers were inferior, she wrote in their defence and of her use of a pseudonym. [4]
In 1920 Skelton obtained a divorce from her husband John Herbert Skelton on the grounds of desertion and adultery but the decree nisi was rescinded in 1921. [5] Skelton married Francis Edmund Bendit in Hampstead in March 1943. [6]
She died in England in 1975. [1]
Gladys Skelton (6 September 1885 – 29 September 1975) was an Australian and United Kingdom poet, novelist and playwright who wrote using the pseudonym John Presland.
Gladys Skelton was born Gladys Williams in Melbourne in 1885. [1]
Skelton gained history honours at Girton College, Cambridge University and was a university lecturer in English literature and lecturer in history and economics. [2] [3] She was one of a group of women writers who used a male pseudonym. [3] In 1928, after a charge by Lord Birkenhead that women writers were inferior, she wrote in their defence and of her use of a pseudonym. [4]
In 1920 Skelton obtained a divorce from her husband John Herbert Skelton on the grounds of desertion and adultery but the decree nisi was rescinded in 1921. [5] Skelton married Francis Edmund Bendit in Hampstead in March 1943. [6]
She died in England in 1975. [1]