Amabel Williams-Ellis

Amabel Williams-Ellis, full name Lady Mary Annabel Nassau Williams-Ellis (née Strachey), was a British writer and anthologist. She co-edited the SF series 'Out of this World', and retold fairy stories as well as writing novels, biographies and other non-fiction. She was also a founder-editor of the left-wing journal 'The Left Review'.

Bibliography

Anthologies (editor)

• Strange Orbits (1976)
• With Mably Owen
  • Out of this World 1 (1960)
  • Out of this World 2 (1961)
  • Out of this World 3 (1962)
  • Out of this World 4 (1964)
  • Out of this World 5 (1965)
  • Out of this World 6 (1967)
  • Out of this World 7 (1968)
  • Out of this World 8 (1970)
  • Out of this World 9 (1972)
  • Out of this World (1971); omnibus containing 'Out of this World 3' and 'Out of this World 4'
  • Out of this World Choice (1972); omnibus containing 'Out of this World 2' and 'Out of this World 5'
  • Worlds Apart (1972)
• With Michael Pearson
  • Out of this World 10 (1973)
  • Tales from the Galaxies (1973)
  • Strange Universe (1974)
  • Strange Planets (1977)

Short stories

• 'Changeling' (Out of this World 4, 1964)
• 'Rich and Strange' (Out of this World 9, 1972)
• 'Miss Inman and the Kloots' (Tales from the Galaxies, 1973)

Novels

• The Wall of Glass (1927)
• To Tell the Truth (1933)
• The Big Firm (1938)
• Learn to Love First (1939)
• Headlong Down the Years: A Tale of Today (1951); with Clough Williams-Ellis

Fairy tale collections

• But We Know Better (1926); with Clough Williams-Ellis
• Fairies and Enchanters (1933)
• Princesses and Trolls (1950)
• The Arabian Nights (1957)
• Grimm's Fairy Tales (1959)
• Round the World Fairy Tales (1963)
• African Folk Tales (1964)
• British Fairy Tales (1965)
• More British Fairy Tales (1965)
• Russian Fairy Tales (1965); with Moura Budberg
• Princesses and Witches (1966)
• Dragons and Princes (1966)
• Old World and New World Fairy Tales (1966)
• Fairy Tales from the British Isles (1966)
• Monkeys and magicians: A collection of modern and traditional stories (1967)
• Gypsy Folk Tales (1973)
• Fairy Tales from East and West (1977)
• Fairy Tales from Everywhere (1977)
• Fairy Tales from Here and There (1977)
• Fairy Tales from Near and Far (1977)
• The Rain-God's Daughter and Other African Fairy-Tales (1977)
• The Story Spirits: Tales from the Far East, Africa and the Caribbean (1983)
• The Enchanted World (1987)

Non-fiction

• An Anatomy of Poetry (1922)
• The Tragedy of John Ruskin (1928); also published as The Exquisite Tragedy: An Intimate Life of John Ruskin
• A History of English Life (1936); with Frederick Fisher
• Women in War Factories (1943)
• Laughing Gas and the Safety Lamp: The Story of Sir Humphry Davy (1951); with Evan Cooper-Willis
• The Art of Being a Woman (1951)
• The Art of Being a Parent (1952)
• Darwin's Moon: A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace (1966)
• All Stracheys are Cousins: Memoirs (1983)
• The Pleasures of Architecture (1930); with Clough Williams-Ellis

Children's non-fiction

• Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoverers (1930)
• How You Began: A Children's Introduction to Biology (1933)
• Good Citizens (1938)
• A Food and People Geography (1951)
• Changing the world: Further stories of great scientific discoveries (1956)
• Magic, Science and Invention (1957)
• Man and the Good Earth (1958); with Charlotte Wallace
• The Unknown Ocean (1958)
• Life in England series, with William Stobbs
  • Tudor England (1968)
  • Georgian England (1969)
  • Early and and Mediaeval Times (1968)
  • 17th Century England (1968)
  • Victorian Life (1969)
• Your Body: What You Eat and Where It Goes (1978)

Plays

• The Sea-power of England (1913); with Amy Strachey

External links

• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections bibliography
• Farah Mendlesohn on the Out of this World series