Beatrice Maude Emelia Huddart Heron-Maxwell (15 July 1859 – 7 March 1927) was a prolific British author.

[1] She was born Beatrice Maude Emelia Eastwick on 15 July 1859 in London,[2] the daughter of Edward Eastwick, orientalist, diplomat, and Member of Parliament, and Rosina Jane Hunter.

[4] Her The Adventures of a Lady Pearl Broker featured an early female detective, Mollie Delamere.

[5][6] Her novel The Queen Regent was a Ruritanian romance about a young widow who becomes ruler of an island nation.

[4] Beatrice Heron-Maxwell was struck by a car in Westbourne Grove, London and died at the hospital two days later.