Alice Askew

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Alice Askew, aka Jane de Courcy, was an author of many stories, including a series of supernatural stories featuring investigator of the supernatural "Aylmer Vance". Jane de Courcy wrote with her husband, Claude Askew ("Arthur Cary").

"This now forgotten husband-and-wife team of collaborators wrote many novels and story cycles. Their one series about the supernatural featured an investigator of the occult named Aylmer Vance. The brisk and rather lightweight stories are narrated by Vance's admiring dogsbody and chronicler, Mr. Dexter, in a Holmes and Watson sort of way. Vance himself, in his attention to the vast gray area beyond the purview of Holmes, is reminiscent of two earlier detectives in this vein, William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwood's John Silence."[1]


"Claude Arthur Cary Askew was born in Notting Hill, London, in 1866, the second son of Reverend John Askew, M.A. Educated at Eton and on the continent, Askew married Alice Jane de Courcey Leake (born St. Pancras, London, 1874, the daughter of Colonel Henry Leake) in 1900 and the pair became industrious writers of stories and serials. ... On October 17, 1917, they were aboard a ship in the Mediterranean which was attacked by an enemy submarine. Both were recorded as having drowned at sea. The couple were survived by a son and a daughter. In more peaceful times they had lived in Wivelsfield Green, near Burgess Hill in Sussex."[2]

Bibliography

Bibliography sourced from Steve Holland's blog.[2]

Fiction
  • The Shulamite. London, Chapman & Hall, 1904. (first publication)
  • Eve – and the Law. London, Chapman & Hall, 1905.
  • The Premier’s Daughter. London, F. V. White & Co., 1905.
  • Anna of the Plains. London, F. V. White & Co., 1906 [1905].
  • The Etonian. London, F. V. White & Co., 1906.
  • Jennifer Pontefract. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1906.
  • The Baxter Family. London, F. V. White & Co., 1907 [1906].
  • The Love-Stone. London, Sisley’s, 1907.
  • Lucy Gort. A study in temperament. London, F. V. White & Co., 1907.
  • Out of the Running. London, Everett & Co., 1907.
  • The Plains of Silence. London, Cassell & Co., 1907.
  • The Sword of Peace. The story of a secret society. London, Everett & Co., 1907.
  • Not Proven. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1908.
  • The Orchard Close. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1908.
  • The Path of Lies. London, F. V. White & Co., 1908.
  • The Tempting of Paul Chester. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
  • The Blue Diamond. London, C. H. White, 1909.
  • The Devil and the Crusader. London, F. V. White, 1909.
  • Felix Stone. London, Everett & Co., 1909.
  • John Heriot’s Wife. London, F. V. White & Co., 1909.
  • Testimony. London, Chapman & Hall, 1909; abridged, London, George Newnes (Sevenpenny Novels 24), 1921.
  • Behind Shuttered Windows. London. C. H. White, 1910.
  • Fate – and Drusilla. London, Everett & Co., 1910.
  • The Quest of El Dorado. London, Cassell & Co., 1910.
  • The Rod of Justice. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.
  • Scarlet Town. London, C. H. White, 1910.
  • The Sporting Chance. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1910.
  • Destiny. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1911.
  • Helen of the Moor. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.
  • The House Next Door. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.
  • Kitty Shafton – Swindler. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.
  • The Pearl of Great Price. London, F. V. White & Co., 1911.
  • A Society Marriage. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.
  • The Stolen Lady. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.
  • The Woman Deborah. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1911.
  • The Apache. London, Everett & Co., 1912.
  • Barbara. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.
  • Bess of Bentley’s. A true shop-girl story. London, F. V. White & Co., 1912.
  • The Dream Daughter. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1912.
  • The Englishwoman. London, Cassell & Co., 1912.
  • In Lovers’ Lane. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1912.
  • The King’s Signature. London, Chapman & Hall, 1912.
  • The Lily and the Devil. London, Everett & Co., 1912.
  • Outlaw Jess. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1912.
  • The Actor Manager. London, George Newnes, 1913.
  • God’s Clay. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
  • The Golden Girl. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1913.
  • Milly the Actress. London, Aldine Publishing Co. (Mascot Novels 2), 1913.
  • The Mystery of Helmsley Grange. London, C. A. Pearson, 1913.
  • Poison. London, Everleigh Nash, 1913.
  • A Preacher of the Lord. London, Cassell & Co., 1913.
  • A Scarlet Sin. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1913.
  • Souls Adrift. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1913.
  • Araby’s Husband. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1914.
  • By Order of the King. London, Aldine Publishing Co. (Goodship Sixpennies), 1914.
  • Freedom. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1914.
  • Gilded London. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1914.
  • In Strange Shoes. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1914.
  • The Legacy. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1914.
  • Love the Jester. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1914.
  • Through Folly’s Mill. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1914.
  • The Golden Quest. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915; abridged, London, Aldine (Novels 8), 1924.
  • Her Mother’s Child. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
  • The Lurking Shadow. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
  • Master and Man. London, Aldine Publishing Co. (Mascot Novels 22), 1915
  • The Missing Million. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
  • The Tocsin. A romance of the Great War. London, John Long, 1915.
  • Trespass. London, Chapman & Hall, 1915.
  • The Weavers. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
  • Wild Sheba. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
  • The Footlight Glare. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1916.
  • Her Father’s Daughter. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1916.
  • Nurse. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1916.
  • The Garment of Immortality. London, John Long, 1917.
  • The Inscrutable Miss Stone. London, John Long, 1917.
  • The Lost Idol. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1917.
  • The Paignton Honour. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1917.
  • Salvation. London, Chapman & Hall, 1917.
  • The Bride in Black. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1918.
  • Lady Borradale’s Ordeal. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1918.
  • The Ordeal of Ann Curtis. London, Jarrolds, 1918.
  • The Telephone Girl. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1918.
  • The Work of Herr Hands. London, Chapman & Hall, 1918.
  • The Secret Pathway. London & Glasgow, Collins, 1919.
  • The Yellow Yoke. London, Aldine Publishing Co. (Goodship Sixpennies), 1919.
  • The Grip of Sin. London, Lloyds, 1920.
  • Lavender’s Inheritance. London, United Press, 1922.
  • Evelyn. London, John Long, 1923.
  • Her Empty Triumph. London, J. Leng & Co. (People’s Friend Library 162), 1926.
  • A Woman’s World. London, J. Leng & Co. (People’s Friend Library 170), 1926.
  • A Deadly Revenge. London & Dublin, Mellifont Press, 1934.
Non-fiction
  • The Stricken Land. Serbia as we saw it. London, Everleigh Nash Co., 1916.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Michael Sims, "Alice and Claude Askew (Jane de Courcy, 1874-1917, and Arthur Cary, 1866-1917)," Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories (p.423.)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Holland (2007).
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