Amabel Williams-Ellis

Amabel Williams-Ellis (née Mary Annabel Nassau Strachey; 10 May 1894 – 27 August 1984)[1] was an English writer, critic,[2] and an early member of the Bloomsbury Group.

[3] As well as publishing her own writings, Williams-Ellis was a prolific editor, translator, and anthologist,[4] compiling collections of fairy stories, folk tales, and science fiction.

[7] During World War I, Amabel served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, which partly inspired an increasing interest in science and anatomy.

[5] She wrote regularly for periodicals, and edited multiple volumes of folk legends, fairy tales, and science fiction.

[5] She was significantly inspired by the writer and explorer Mary Kingsley, whom Williams-Ellis had met in childhood, and whom she described as "an anthropologist before anthropology".