Jessie Louisa Rickard

During her lifetime she became a versatile writer who produced over forty novels, some of which found a large reading public.

[2] She married Robert Dudley Innes Ackland, by whom she had a daughter, and later divorced him, which caused a rift with her father.

Her next book, Dregs, which appeared in 1914, was a psychological study and was the forerunner of many romantic and sometimes sensational tales marked by great vitality.

The word powerful can justly be applied to them and all had evocative titles: The Dark Stranger, Blindfold, Yesterdays Love, Old Sins Have Long Shadows, and A Reckless Puritan.

[1] Most of her novels were published under the name "Mrs Victor Rickard", but she also achieved a reputation with others, as the author of The Pointing Man.

Mrs. Rickard was a witty woman and a delightful hostess; kind to the young; invariably hospitable; a vivid personality.