Sonia E. Howe

Sonia "Sonny" Elizabeth Howe (born 1871; date of death unknown) was an Académie Française laureate Russian essayist.

Sonia Elizabeth Howe was born in 1871 in Analowo, near Saint Petersburg, the daughter of Charlotte von Mayer and Dr. Karl von Mayer, a physician and founder of the Protestant Hospital of Saint Petersburg.

Her younger brother was Eduard von Mayer, the founder of Clarism.

[2] In Odd Patterns in the Weaving (1925) she recounts her life in various parishes in England; her adventures in Gothenburg and later as a missionary in China; of her activities in connection with the relief of political exiles in Northern Russia and Siberia in pre-World War I days; and how she helped 70,000 Russians to pass through England in the autumn of 1914.

[6] In 1946 she published Les grands navigateurs à la recherche des épices (In quest of spices), an history of the explorers who, in search of spices, discovered new worlds.