Mabel Murray Hickson [SEP] date of birth
Mabel Murray Hickson
Mabel Murray Hickson, née Mabel Greenhow (2 February 1859, Esher – 12 November 1922 Esher), was an English writer of short stories.
She was born into a medical family with roots in Newcastle. Her father was Judge William Thomas Greenhow (1831-1921) & her grandfather was Thomas Michael Greenhow, co-founder of the city's Eye Infirmary and Newcastle University Medical School. He worked at the Newcastle Infirmary, later renamed the Royal Victoria Infirmary, for many years and was instrumental
times through to World War II.
She married Robert Murray Hickson in 1884 (he died aged 29 in 1885). After publishing a short novel, "A Latter-Day Romance", in 1893, Hickson became a prolific contributor of stories to periodicals of the 1890s. Upon her second marriage in 1896 to Sidney Austyn Paul Kitcat (a first class cricketer, who played for Esher), she became Mabel Greenhow Kitcat, though she continued to write under the name Mrs Murray Hickson.
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