Clotilde Graves

Graves, was an Irish author who wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan, becoming a successful playwright in London and New York City.

She was an unusual figure in London society, wearing her hair short, affecting a masculine manner and cut of clothing, and smoking cigarettes in public when such characteristics were considered eccentric.

A letter of recommendation from an editor to the manager ended in Miss Clo Graves writing the pantomime of Puss in Boots.

With the actress Gertrude Kingston she wrote the play A Matchmaker, which gained a certain notoriety when it was criticised for comparing marriage to prostitution.

The film gave considerable offence in South Africa due to the harsh portrayal of English and Dutch characters.

The story's protagonist is a drunken and disgraced medic who eventually makes his way to South Africa where he redeems his honour at the Siege of Mafeking.

[citation needed] The incidentals of the novel, however, should not distract from its primary objective of tracing a story of redemption through expiatory suffering and kenosis, a subject much explored by writers, in several European languages, connected with the literary renouveau catholique movement.