Mary Mitchell

(1893-1973), born Melbourne, was educated in Australia and Europe. In 1923 she returned to Australia, and until 1932 worked with the Victorian Junior Red Cross. She published about twenty popular novels, many of them with romantic, even fantastic plots. They include A Warning to Wantons (1934), Pendulum Swing (1935), Viper's Progress (1939), Dark Tapestry (1942), Prelude to Jesting (1950) and Birth of a Legend (1956). Her best-known novel, A Warning to Wantons, was translated into several languages and produced as a film in 1948. Afflicted with blindness in her later years, Mitchell also wrote a well-received account of the experience of the blind, designed to improve relations between them and the sighted, Uncharted Country (1963).

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