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Author: May Bradley

Author: May Bradley (1875–1849)

Alternate Name(s): Watson Dyke (pseudonym)

Biography: May (or Mary) Bradley was born in 1875 in Liverpool, the daughter of American leather merchant William T. Bradley and his wife Elizabeth. Just out of her teens, she wrote a novel Craiktrees (1897) under the pseudonym "Watson Dyke." She followed with several others over the years while working as a journalist. She never married and lived with family for most of her life. She died in 1949 in Aysgarth, Yorkshire.

Author Tags:

• Journalists

References: British Census (1881, 1891, 1911); pers Inf (Mick Wallis)

Fiction Titles:

1. Craiktrees.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
2. As Others See Us.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899.