Hilda Gregg

She then won a short-story competition organised by Cassell's Family Magazine and contributed work to periodicals such as Argosy, The Girl's Own Paper and The Lady's Realm.

[2] Blackwood published the book as In Furthest Ind: The Narrative of Mr. Edward Carlyon of the Honourable East India Company's Service the following year, under the pseudonym of Sydney C. (for Carolyn) Grier.

[1][4] Rather than engage with contemporary issues such as the New Woman, Gregg preferred to focus on historical adventure stories of English people succeeding in exotic places.

[5][6] Her other novels include The Uncrowned Prince (1896),[7] His Excellency's English Governess (1896, set in Baghdad), The Wardens of the Marches (1901, Afghanistan) and One Crowded Hour (1912, Sicily).

She is sent out to Ethiopia to correct the Ethiopian queen’s cataracts, but the death of another physician places the hero at the centre of a story involving poisonings.