Lilamani maud diver biography
Lilamani recounts the marriage of Sir Nevil Sinclair and Lilamani, the daughter of the noble Rajput and Anglophile, Sir Lakshman Singh.
Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall; 9 September – 14 October ) was an English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories....
Maud Diver
English author
Maud Diver | |
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A portrait of Maud Diver from the 1910s by Walter Stoneman | |
| Born | Katherine Helen Maud Marshall (1867-09-09)9 September 1867 Murree, British India |
| Died | 14 October 1945(1945-10-14) (aged 78) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Citizenship | British |
| Genre | Imperial Romance |
| Spouse | Thomas Diver |
Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall; 9 September 1867 – 14 October 1945) was an English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories, biographies and journalistic pieces primarily on Indian topics and Englishmen in India.[1]
Personal life
Diver was born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall in Murree, now in Pakistan, where her father Charles Henry Tilson Marshall served as an officer in the British Indian Army.
She grew up in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but received her education in England. She had a lifelong friendship with the sister of Rudyard Kipling, Trix Fleming. Diver married Thomas Dive
