Mary Helena Fortune

Mary Helena Fortune was born in the year 1833; she died in the year 1910. She was an Australian writer under the penname Waif Wander and W...

Mary Helena Fortune was born in the year 1833; she died in the year 1910. She was an Australian writer under the penname Waif Wander and W.W. Mary Helena Fortune was one of the earliest detective writers on earth. She was one of the earliest women of the world to write from the viewpoint of the officer.
Mary Helena Fortune was born around the year 1833 in Belfast, Ireland; she traveled with the father to Canada in the city of Melbourne city. She got married to Joseph Fortune on the 25th March 1851 and they had a son together. When her father left Canada to Australia she moved with him and she left the husband behind and moved to Australia with the son. She arrived in the city of Melbourne, Victoria on the 3rd October 1855 and in November of the year 1856, Mary Helena Fortune gave birth to her second son. In January of the year 1858, her first son died. She got married to Percy Rollo Brett on the 25th October 1858.
Over 40 years, Mary Helena Fortune wrote more than 500 detective stories.
Examples of her work
Ø  Wongaworra, Alexandra Times, 23 December 1876.
Ø  Christmas Eve, Long Ago, At Braidwood, Portland Guardian, 25 December 1879.
Ø  Monk's Mark, Burra Record, 28 April 1882.
Ø  Ike's Sin: A Story of the Sea, Queanbeyan Age, 26 December 1884.
Ø  The Detective's Dream, Portland Guardian, 24 December 1886.
Ø  Three Jacks, Camperdown Chronicle, 3 November 1903.
Ø  Noel or Love and War: Part 1 and Part 2, Camperdown Chronicle, 2 February 1904 and 9 February 1904.
Ø  The Lilies of Forgiveness, Camperdown Chronicle, 26 April 1904.
Ø  Coo-ee!, The Mail, 8 April 1916 (poem quoted in its entirety in a letter to the editor).
Ø  Reprint of The Detectives Album edited by Lucy Sussex

Ø  "The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale"

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