FOUND DEAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 9

FOUND DEAD

WOMAN NOVELIST CYNTHIA STOCKLEY'S END LONDON. Jan. 15 Miss Cynthia Stockley (Mrs. Pelham Browne), well-known novelist, was found dead by a charwoman in her flat in Bayswater to-day. She was covered bv a counterpane under which was a tube leading from a gas ring. Deceased's friends say that in spite of the success of her novels she felt herself out of touch with the modern world. The title of her last unpublished novel was "Suicide Season." The late Miss Cynthia Stocklev was the wife of- Captain H. E. Pelham Browne, M.C., late Boyal Engineers. She was born in South Africa, where most of her early life was spent. Her first husband was the late Mr. Philip G. W. Stockley, whom she married in Rhodesia, but she left there in 1898 to go to London to take up journalism. She took up stage work for a few years, working mostly with Benson's Shakespearean Company. Miss Stockley also toured in America, where she lived for some years. She had travelled extensively and had lived in many lands. Her best-known publications are: "Virginia of the Rliodesians," "Poppy," "The Claw," "The Dreamship," "Wild Honey," "Blue Aloes," "Pink Gods and Blue Demons," "Ponjola," "Perilous Women," "Three Farms," "Leopard in the Bush" and "Tagati."