Mary Jane Richards

Mary Jane Richards (born 1843; died in November 1904), born Blair, was a British theatre actress and the mother of the writer Edgar Wallace.

She was born as Marie Jane Blair in Bradford, United Kingdom, and got the nickname "Polly".

She married a sailor who has been handed down as Captain Richards and became pregnant by him before he went to sea again and never returned.

She concealed the affair and the pregnancy and gave birth to her son alone with the help of a midwife at Asburnham Grove in Greenwich.

[2][1] When Mary Jane fell ill in her old age, she came to Edgar Wallace in 1904 and asked him for financial support.