Mabel Winifred Knowles who wrote as May Wynne and Lester Lurgan (1 January 1875 – 29 November 1949) was a British popular writer and church worker.

[1] Her first book was titles Life's Object and it gave advice to girl's including that they should not give their attention to athletics or, ironically, "foolish mawkish love stories".

Knowles adopted the nom de plume of Lester Lurgan and under that name she created detective and science fiction stories including "A Message from Mars" in 1912.

[4] The choice of Lester Lurgan as a name gave way to May Wynne who is credited with writing hundreds of books.

[1] The Church of the Ascension in London's Victoria Docks had opened a mission house for women workers in 1909.