Mary E. Penn
7 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1878 | 436 | Short Fiction | Snatched from the Brink | The Argosy, June 1878 |
| October 1879 | Short Fiction | How Georgette Kept Tryst | The Argosy (UK), October 1879 | |
| December 1879 | Short Fiction | Desmond's Model | The Argosy (UK), December 1879 | |
| December 1880 | Short Fiction | Old Vanderhaven's Will | The Argosy (UK), December 1880 | |
| September 1883 | Short Fiction | The Tenant of the Cedars | The Argosy (UK), September 1883 | |
| June 1885 | Short Fiction | In the Dark | The Argosy (UK), June 1885 | |
| February 2000 | 109 | Review | In the Dark and Other Ghost Stories | All Hallows, February 2000 |
2 English-language books
| Year | Type | Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Collection | In the Dark and Other Ghost Stories | Mary E. Penn |
| 2017 | Collection | The Ghost Stories of Mary E. Penn | Mary E. Penn |
Amazon, summarizing Alastair Gunn's introduction to "The Ghost Stories of Mary E. Penn", writes: "The identity of this late-Victorian author is a complete enigma. Scholars of the macabre have been unable to discern any details of her person, origin or character (assuming she was indeed female). We only know that from the 1870s to the 1890s this author published a number of stories in periodicals, most commonly in The Argosy, but disappeared completely from the literary world after 1897. However, in his Introduction to this volume, author Alastair Gunn presents some circumstantial evidence that Mary E. Penn was a pseudonym of renowned author Ellen Wood (1814-1887). But, whoever Mary E. Penn was, she left a legacy of eight extremely commendable tales that stand up well in the huge canon of Victorian traditional ghost stories." She wrote ghost stories and, later, crime and mystery fiction. The blogspot web link for this author is a copy of that introduction.